NASA launches Curiosity rover

OTD In Space - November 26: Curiosity Rover Launches To Mars
On November 26, 2011, the NASA Curiosity rover launched to Mars. Curiosity was the biggest and most powerful rover anyone had ever sent to the Red Planet. The two-ton science laboratory is about the size of a small SUV.
On This Day: NASA launches Curiosity rover to look for life on Mars
In 2011, the United States launched an Atlas V rocket to look for life on Mars. Aboard was the rover Curiosity, which would explore the planet, searching for signs of life. In 2023, Irish writer Paul Lynch won the Booker Prize for his dystopian novel Prophet Song, a fictional account of tyranny and war described as "soul shattering."
NASA's Curiosity rover captures 360-degree view of Mars — and finds strange sulfur stones
The Mars rover, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), has slowly scaled Mount Sharp since 2014. This mountain, officially monikered "Aeolis Mons," was discovered in the 1970s; cut into its alien landscape is the boulder-packed Gediz Vallis channel, which some scientists believe to be an ancient river bed.
What are spider webs on Mars that NASA’s Curiosity Rover might likely explore
Twelve years after landing on Mars, Curiosity Rover is investigating peculiar 'boxwork' formations on Mount Sharp. These giant spiderweb-like patterns, possibly formed by evaporating water, may hold clues to past microbial life,
NASA's Curiosity rover heads to new puzzling Martian destination
After a year of exploring a mysterious valley on Mars, NASA 's intrepid Curiosity rover is headed to a new destination with its own intrigue.
Mars Curiosity rover takes a last look at mysterious sulfur
NASA's Curiosity rover is preparing for the next leg of its journey, a months-long trek to a formation called the boxwork, a set of weblike patterns on Mars's surface that stretches for miles. It will soon leave behind Gediz Vallis channel,
On This Day, Nov. 26: NASA launches Curiosity rover to look for life on Mars
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NASA Curiosity Shares Stunning 360 View of Mars With Strange White Rocks
The rover's latest discoveries, including pure sulfur stones and sprawling mineral "spiderwebs," unravel new mysteries of ...
NASA Mars Rover Exploring Spiderweb-Like Patterns on Mars
There's no shortage of cool features of mysterious origins to be found on the surface of Mars, but the next one that NASA ...
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NASA discovers strange 'spiderwebs' on Mars they believe could be connected to aliens
A new discovery found strange structures resembling spiderwebs across a non-explored area of Mars – and NASA think it could ...
NASA investigates mysterious 'spiderweb' formations on Mars, hints at signs of ancient life
NASA's Curiosity Rover has been tasked with investigating peculiar "spiderweb" structures discovered in a previously ...
NASA’s Mars Rover Is Heading To Explore These Freaky Spiderwebs Called Boxwork
The Boxwork feature was first viewed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) in 2006, and looks like spiderwebs stretching ...
Honoring mars and its mysteries
Red Planet Day, observed annually on November 28, commemorates the launch of NASA's Mariner 4 mission in 1964, which marked ...