{"id":14717,"date":"2017-08-03T09:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-08-03T13:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14717"},"modified":"2017-08-03T01:07:39","modified_gmt":"2017-08-03T05:07:39","slug":"14717","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=14717","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Curiosity marks five years searching for clues to Mars early history"},"content":{"rendered":"

NASA JPL highlights the five year anniversary of the Curiosity Rover<\/a>‘s arrival on Mars with a set of videos about the mission so far:<\/p>\n

Five Years Ago and 154 Million Miles Away: Touchdown!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Five years since it landed near Mount Sharp on Mars in August 2017 and nearly three years since reaching the base of the mountain, NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is climbing toward multiple layers of Mount Sharp visible in this view from the rover’s Mast Camera. Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/MSSS \u203a Full image and caption<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, which landed near Mount Sharp five years ago this week, is examining clues on that\u00a0mountain<\/a>\u00a0about long-ago lakes on Mars.<\/p>\n

On Aug. 5, 2012, the mission team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California,\u00a0exalted<\/a>\u00a0at radio confirmation and first images from Curiosity after the rover’s touchdown using a new\u00a0“sky crane”<\/a>\u00a0landing method. Transmissions at the speed of light took nearly 14 minutes to travel from Mars to Earth, which that day were about 154 million miles (248 million kilometers) apart.<\/p>\n