Thursday, August 1, 2013

NASA Curiosity rover's first year on Mars captured in two-minute highlight video

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It seems like just yesterday that NASA landed its largest-ever interplanetary rover, Curiosity, on the surface of Mars. But now, after quite a bit of roving, drilling rocks, zapping them with lasers, and uncovering evidence of past liquid water and an environment previously hospitable to microbial life, Curiosity is gearing up to celebrate its first full year of operations on the Red Planet (in Earth time, that is). In advance of the milestone on Tuesday, August 6th, NASA published a two-minute long video today of 548 images Curiosity captured along its mission so far.


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via The Verge - All Posts http://www.theverge.com/2013/8/1/4579312/nasa-curiosity-rovers-first-year-on-mars-video

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