Large image: Curiosity isn’t just a sightseeing expedition. One of the main goals of the project is to study the environment to learn more about how the Martian climate has changed over time. “The rocks here will start to tell us how this once wet planet turned into the now dry Mars and how long habitable environments lasted after that,” said Abigail, associate project scientist for Curiosity.
While we humans grapple with it possibility (or the impossibility of) aliens visiting Earth, NASA has been doing basically the same thing on other planets for decades. Take Mars’ closest neighbor, for example.
NASA’s Curiosity rover left our home planet in late 2011 and landed on the Red Planet in August 2012. The car-sized rover has spent nearly a decade traversing the rocky surface of Mars, traveling more than 15 miles in the process, and sending back detailed images of everything it sees. along the way.
In a video recently posted on YouTube, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory shared an interesting panorama showing the rover’s current position 1,500 feet above the landing pad on Mount Sharp.
From this vantage point, we have a solid view of a region of darker sand formed from volcanic rock fragments. Fraeman too mention, that how clear the air is because it’s winter on Mars, that we can see all the way to the rim of Gale crater about 20 miles away.
Besides short fear In 2019, Curiosity developed as expected. As long as that happens, NASA will likely continue to use the rover to learn as much as possible about the Red Planet. Its predecessor, Chance, lasted more than 14 years before it finally bit the bullet and became declared dead in 2019.
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