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Explore Mars and the Curiosity Rover Through a Panorama

Do you wish that you could get up close to Mars and the Curiosity Rover? Then consider taking a look at this 360Cities Panorama. I suggest you hit the full screen button and take it for a relaxing virtual visit. If you look at the top of the rover, you might notice the Mars rocks and dust on the rover, no doubt debris from the landing.

 

Curiosity Rover

The Curiosity rover is a robotic, car-sized rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars. The Curiosity Mars rover carries a radioisotope-powered mobile scientific laboratory and is part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission by the United States. The MSL mission has four main scientific goals: investigation of the Martian climate, geology, and whether Mars could have ever supported life, including investigation of the role of water and its planetary habitability.

Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011 at 10:02 EST aboard the MSL spacecraft and successfully landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17:57.3 UTC.[6] The final landing place for the rover was less than 2.4 km (1.5 mi) from its target after a 563,000,000 km (350,000,000 mi) journey

source:wikipedia