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Curiosity
RoverCar-sized rover with a rock-vaporising laser and an onboard chemistry lab, lowered to the surface by a rocket-powered sky crane.
- Launch mass
- 899 kg
- Power
- Radioisotope
- Built by
- Jet Propulsion Laboratory
- Designator
- 2011-070A
Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech · Public domain · Wikimedia Commons
- Launched
- 26 Nov 201115:02:00 UTC
- Active for
- 14 years 11 months
- Destinations
- Mars
A NASA mission that landed the Curiosity rover in Gale crater in 2012, where it found that Mars once had lakes and streams able to support microbial life.
Milestones
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Spacecraft
Active
Mission details from science.nasa.gov.