Curiosity, the rover that has been exploring the planet Mars since it touched the red planet On August 6, 2012 he just celebrated his 3,000th day on Mars on January 12, 2021.
It is important to note that yes March days we talk, which are known as suns and last 24 hours and 40 minutes. The Mars Exploration Rover has spent this time admirably navigating and researching Martian climate and geology, in part to determine if Mars is habitable or if it ever was in the past.. In December 2012, Curiosity’s mission was extended indefinitely, so we’re likely to get pretty lonely from this bad guy before he finally retires.
In its time on Mars, Curiosity traveled 14.87 kilometers and provided detailed images that you can explore at NASA. website. It also includes a wealth of onboard technologies that have potential outside of space travel. He The chemical and mineralogy instrument, or CheMin, for example, is designed to perform a chemical analysis of powdered rock to determine the types and amounts of minerals that are present. But it also has a purpose at the Getty Conservation Institute: it can date and evaluate works of art without causing them physical harm.
Soon, Curiosity will be added to the Perseverance rover, who threw fin Cape Canaveral, Florida, on July 30, 2020 and is scheduled to touch Mars in about five weeks, on February 18. Again, the purpose of this mission is to evaluate the composition of Mars to determine if it can be habitable. About 85 percent of the new rover is based on heritage hardware, as the previous ones have been so successful. The big change here is that Perseverance will have more higher quality cameras to provide more detailed images. It is also designed to bring rock samples to Earth.