Cosmic Exploration · mission
Curiosity
2011 · NASA · Mars · On-going
- Agency
- NASA
- Status
- On-going
- Destination
- Mars
- Launch Date
- 2011-11-26
Objective
Too heavy for airbags, so it was lowered on cables from a rocket-powered sky crane that then flew away and crashed deliberately. It has since confirmed Gale Crater once held a lake.
Open on the Cosmic Exploration shelf — the interactive card, the filters, and everything alongside it.