Curiosity
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover in Gale crater.
Curiosity is a NASA Mars rover of the Mars Science Laboratory mission. It launched from Cape Canaveral on 26 November 2011 and landed in Gale crater on 6 August 2012, and it still operates long after its original two-year mission.
Its goals include studying Martian climate and geology and finding whether Gale crater ever offered conditions for microbial life.
Quick Facts
- Mission
- Mars Science Laboratory
- Owner
- NASA
- Manufacturer
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Dimensions
- 2.9 × 2.7 x
- Dry mass
- 899 kg / 1,982 lb
- Communication
- UHF: ~400 MHz
- 2 Mbit/s
- X band: 7–8 GHz
- 800 bit/s
- Power
- MMRTG: ~100 W
- Rocket
- Atlas V 541
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