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Curiosity: 10 Years of Martian Mountain Climbing

Curiosity poster illustration containing its accomplishments.

August 02, 2022

Since landing on Mars in August 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has been exploring 3-mile-high Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000 feet (612 meters), reaching progressively younger rocks that serve as a record on how Mars has evolved from a wet, habitable planet to a cold desert environment.

Some other accomplishments by Curiosity:

  • Acquired 494,540 images

  • Returned 3,102 gigabytes of data to Earth

  • Drilled 35 samples and scooped 6

  • Its findings yielded 883 science papers

For more information about the mission, go to: https://mars.nasa.gov/msl.

Information current as of July 2022.

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NASA/JPL-Caltech

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