Curiosity Rover on Mars Once Wished Itself ‘Happy Birthday’—and Then Became a Meme Curiosity rover on Mars once celebrated ...

It is a story that has been repeated a lot since. We do love to anthropomorphize space missions. A robot singing itself Happy Birthday was an almost guaranteed to make Curiosity more than just a ...

After its voyage past Mars, Mariner 4 maintained intermittent communication with JPL and returned data about the interplanetary environment for two more years. But by the end of 1967, the spacecraft ...

Acheron Fossae is filled with dramatic landscape features — most notably, its namesake fossae, or fault-like channels that criss-cross the surface. Here, the land is split into raised ridges known as ...

The Curiosity rover has entered its teenage years and achieved higher levels of efficiency. Ever since its landing on Mars on ...

Happy Birthday to the Mars rover! On August 5, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on Mars. Many celebrate this on August 6 because when it landed at 10:32 p.m. PT, most of the world was a ...

On Aug. 6, 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover successfully touched down on the Martian surface. Curiosity is NASA's biggest and ...

This is the first-ever close-up image of Mars, taken by NASA's Mariner probe during a flyby on July 14, 1965. It shows an area about 330 kilometers across by 1,200 km (205 miles by 745 miles) from ...