Curiosity Rover in the context of "Rover (space exploration)"

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⭐ Core Definition: Curiosity Rover

Curiosity is a Mars rover that is exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Launched in 2011 and landed the following year, the car-sized rover continues to operate more than a decade after its original two-year mission.

Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida on November 26, 2011, at 15:02:00 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17:57 UTC. The Bradbury Landing site was less than 2.4 km (1.5 mi) from the center of the rover's touchdown target after a 560 million km (350 million mi) journey.

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👉 Curiosity Rover in the context of Rover (space exploration)

A rover (or sometimes planetary rover) is a planetary surface exploration machine designed to move over the rough surface of a planet or other planetary-mass celestial bodies. Some rovers have been designed as land vehicles to transport members of a human spaceflight crew; others have been partially or fully autonomous robots.

Rovers typically landed on an exoplanet (planets other than Earth) or a moon via a lander-style spacecraft, tasked to move around and collect information about the terrain, and to take crust samples such as dust, soil, rocks and even liquids. They are essential astrogeology tools for space exploration.

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Mars rover → Gale (crater) → Mount Sharp → Mars → NASA → Mars Science Laboratory → Cape Canaveral Space Force Station → Florida → Coordinated Universal Time → Aeolis Palus → Bradbury Landing →