On August 6, 2012 NASA's Mars rover Curiosity famously landed inside the Martian crater Gale. The main goals for the Curiosity mission on Mars are conducting thorough geological and geochemistry tests, exploring the atmosphere and the planet's climate, searching for water or its traces, as well organic substances. This data is to help arrive at conclusions about if Mars ever offered conditions favorable for microbial life and if there are any habitable zones on the planet now.
Mars rover Curiosity finds parts of an iron meteorite during NASA's robot-aided MARS exploration program.
Photo of Mars surface, taken from aboard of Mars rover Curiosity during NASA's robot-aided MARS exploration program.
Photo taken from the orbit features the way Mars rover Curiosity made during NASA's robot-aided MARS exploration program.
Photo from aboard Curiosity featuring the traces it left during NASA's robot-aided MARS exploration program.
Photo from aboard Curiosity featuring Martian rock "Harrison" with crystal fragments, taken during NASA's robot-aided MARS exploration program.
Photo of Mars surface, taken from aboard of Mars rover Curiosity during NASA's robot-aided MARS exploration program.
Picture featuring an alpha particle of the X-ray spectrometer on Curiosity Mars rover, taken during NASA's robot-aided MARS exploration program.
Photo of Mars surface, taken from aboard of Mars rover Curiosity during NASA's robot-aided MARS exploration program.
Photo of the planet Earth taken by Mars rover Curiosity from the Mars surface during NASA's robot-aided MARS exploration program.
