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Mars Rover Curiosity Mission

Mars Rover Curiosity Mission. Artist’s image of the Curiosity rover on Mars. Mars Rover Curiosity: Mission Stats. Take notes! (p.19 of your notebook) Launched Nov. 26, 2011 Arrived Aug. 5, 2012 (36 weeks later) Duration: 2 years on Mars Rover weighs almost 1 ton (1,982 lbs)

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Mars Rover Curiosity Mission

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  1. Mars Rover Curiosity Mission Artist’s image of the Curiosity rover on Mars

  2. Mars Rover Curiosity:Mission Stats Take notes! (p.19 of your notebook) • Launched Nov. 26, 2011 • Arrived Aug. 5, 2012 (36 weeks later) • Duration: 2 years on Mars • Rover weighs almost 1 ton (1,982 lbs) • Distance traveled from Earth to Mars: • 352 million miles(567 million kilometer) • Remember yesterday? Like standing on a peppercorn and hitting a pinhead 42′ away

  3. Mars Rover Curiosity:Mission Goals • Understand the geology • Did it ever have life? • Could it sustain life in the future? The first high-resolution color mosaic from NASA's Curiosity rover, showing the geological environment around the rover's landing site in Gale Crater.

  4. Mars Rover Curiosity:Images • Mars Rover Image Gallery • First Curiosity video: 360 degree view of landing site • So much to see! • nasa.gov Layers at the base of Mt. Sharp (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS)

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