NASA has celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars and has shared a dusty selfie of the rover’s rover.
Everything we see around us including space, oceans, planets, among other things, holds many secrets. For more, scientists and researchers are working tirelessly to secure the life of mankind. One such effort includes learning more about the planet Mars, and NASA sent the Curiosity rover with a similar purpose to the Red Planet on August 2012. Celebrating 10 years since the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. Since landing, Curiosity has been trying to understand how Mars evolved from a wet, habitable planet into a frigid desert environment.
And now, NASA has shared an image in which Curiosity takes a self-portrait at Gale Crater on SoI 2082 (June 15, 2018) using Mars’ Hand Lens Imager, or Mahli. Notice about the same, NASA on August 5 said in a report“Today marks 10 years since the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. Since August 2012, Curiosity has explored Mount Sharp 3 miles high in Gale Crater. The rover has climbed more than 2,000 feet. (612 metres), younger and younger rocks serve as a record of how Mars has evolved from a wet, habitable planet into a frigid desert environment.”
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According to information provided by NASA, the rover analyzed 41 soil and rock samples, drawing on a set of scientific tools to find out what they revealed about Earth’s rocky cousin.
And it prompted a team of engineers to figure out ways to minimize wear and tear and keep the ship rolling: In fact, Curiosity’s mission was recently extended by three years, allowing it to continue on the team. NASA’s key astrobiology mission team.
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It is possible that the rover’s radiation sensor allows scientists to measure the amount of high-energy radiation that future astronauts will be exposed to on the surface of Mars, helping NASA figure out how to keep them safe. .
But most importantly, Curiosity has determined that liquid water as well as the chemical building blocks and nutrients necessary for life have existed for at least tens of millions of years in Gale Crater. The crater once contained a lake, which was the size of wax and weakened over time. Each higher layer on Mount Sharp serves as a record of the more recent epoch of the Martian environment.
