NASA Opportunity rover: THESE Mars rovers are still operational despite Opportunity death

NASA Curiosity:

The NASA Curiosity rover is a continuation of NASA’s long-term robotic exploration of the red planet.

Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet’s “habitability.”

To find out, the rover carries the biggest, most advanced suite of instruments for scientific studies ever sent to the martian surface.

The Curiosity rover is analysing samples scooped from the soil and drilled from rocks.

The record of the planet’s climate and geology is essentially “written in the rocks and soil”, in their formation, structure, and chemical composition.

The Curiosity rover’s onboard laboratory will study rocks, soils, and the local geologic setting in order to detect chemical building blocks of life on Mars and will assess what the martian environment was like in the past.

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