NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete its first Martian year on June 24th. The rover took a 'selfie' to commemorate its 687-day stay on the Red Planet - Earth days, that is.
Curiosity made some groundbreaking findings in its first 'year' on the planet. In Aug. 2012, Curiosity succeeded in its main mission, to determine if Mars ever harbored the environment to support microbial life. The Curiosity rover drilled into the Martian Gale Crater, in the Yellowknife region, finding a former lakebed containing what NASA called 'essential elemental ingredients for life.'
This spring, the rover spent its time collecting sandstone samples in Windjana, an area south west of the original Bradbury Landing site. The rover will continue moving south west towards Mount Sharp, its final destination.
Entities 0 Name: NASA Count: 2 1 Name: Yellowknife Count: 1 2 Name: Bradbury Count: 1 3 Name: Windjana Count: 1 4 Name: Mount Sharp Count: 1 5 Name: Martian Gale Crater Count: 1 6 Name: Mars Curiosity Count: 1 7 Name: Earth Count: 1 Related 0 Url: http://ift.tt/1vzqU0q Title: NASA's Futuristic Spacesuits Made for Mars Walkers Description: NASA's 'Technology' Z-2 spacesuit design is depicted on some rocks.Credit: NASA NASA is thinking hard about what the first boots to set foot on Mars will look like. Getting astronauts to the Red Planet is the chief long-term goal of the agency's human spaceflight program, so NASA is developing many technologies to help make that happen.
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