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Curiosity
Curiosity is a NASA rover part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which landed on Mars in August 2012. Its primary goal is to explore Gale Crater to assess whether Mars ever had conditions suitable for microbial life.
Source: science.nasa.gov
APODs including "Curiosity"
Curiosity on Mars: Mt. Sharp in View
27/08/2012
Curiosity on Mars: Still Life with Rover
18/08/2012
Curiosity on Mars: A Wall of Gale Crater
15/08/2012
The First Color Panorama from Mars by Curiosity
11/08/2012
Perseid Below
10/08/2012
Mars in the Loop
09/08/2012
Curiosity Drops In
08/08/2012
A Wheel on Mars
07/08/2012
Curiosity Before Mars: Seven Minutes of Terror
Video
31/07/2012
Curiosity Rover Lifts Off for Mars
30/11/2011
Gale Crater
29/07/2011
Mysterious White Rock Fingers on Mars
07/04/2008
Comet Holmes from the Hubble Space Telescope
28/11/2007
Comet Holmes' Coma Expands
30/10/2007
Huge Void Implicated in Distant Universe
27/08/2007
A Rocket Debris Cloud Drifts
26/02/2007
Water On Mars
01/04/2005
Fragments of Comet LINEAR
11/08/2000
Impact on Jupiter
28/07/1998