Curiosity Rover Mission: Earth to Mars 🚀

Take the journey from lift off to landing. Join the team taking the NASA Curiosity rover from earth to Mars in a mission to find what really lies on the Red Planet.

Find out what it really take stop land a car sized rover on Mars.

All of this answered in this small documentary.

Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 15:02 UTC aboard the MSL spacecraft and landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17 UTC. The Bradbury Landing site was less than 2.4 km (1.5 mi) from the center of the rover's touchdown target after a 563,000,000 km (350,000,000 mi) journey.

The rover's goals include: investigation of the Martian climate and geology; assessment of whether the selected field site inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, including investigation of the role of water; and planetary habitability studies in preparation for future human exploration.

Read more about Curiosity Rover:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_(rover)
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html

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