Before Perseverance was launched, NASA equipped it with nine bits: one for Martian soil, two for removing the dust-covered ...

Curiosity rover began its voyage to Mars in November 2011 during a launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Though it has been scouring the Martian surface for more than a decade, NASA's Curiosity ...

Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has traveled over 21.33 miles since it first landed on the Red Planet in 2012. That might not seem ...

by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity are the rover’s tracks, which can linger on the Martian surface for months before being erased by the wind.