About Mars rover Curiosity
Basic Data
- Rover name
- Curiosity
- Mission status
- active
- Launch date
- 2011-11-26
- Landing date
- 2012-08-06
- Martian sols
- 3352
Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Gale crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on 26 November 2011, at 15:02:00 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on 6 August 2012, 05:17:57 UTC
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Images from Curiosity, 2026-10-24