NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover set out to answer a big question when it landed on the Red Planet 10 years ago: Could Mars have supported ancient life? Scientists have discovered the answer is yes and have been working to learn more about the planet’s past habitable environment.
In this Mars Report, Curiosity Deputy Project Scientist Abigail Fraeman provides an update on the rover’s capabilities a decade after landing in Gale Crater. Now, Curiosity is heading to an area that may help answer how long ancient life could have persisted on the Red Planet as Mars went through significant changes in the climate.
Read more about where Curiosity is currently exploring. Download a poster celebrating Curiosity’s 10 years on Mars here.
Some of the images in the video include color enhancement that exaggerate small changes in color from place to place in the Martian scene. This makes it easier for the science team to use their everyday experience to interpret the landscape. For instance, the sky on Mars would not actually look blue to a human explorer on the Red Planet, but pinkish.
For more information on NASA’s Mars missions, visit mars.nasa.gov.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/MSSS/JHU-APL
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A thought occured to me the other night; #AskNASA; why doesn't NASA use weather balloons on Mars? They are lighter, cary a smoother camera, can be RC controlled like the Hindenburg, and have basically an endless supply of fuel. I hope they further research this idea instead of the 20 minute flight drone. Hours and days verses minutes. The drone is a neat idea though.
Nothing landed on Mars. Its a fraud.
Hii a,m Vivek astronaut nasa
Yeahhh !!
Happy Birthday Curiosity !
What an amazing time to be alive !!
Congratulations on completing ten years
congratulations
Humans are the only species on the planet that doesnt get along with the planet,the other species on the planet or each other..all the other animals coexist in harmony with each other and the planet..humans are the only species that destroys its own environment and kills each other in quantites,hmmmm😉🫠
Humans samples might have been placed here by an ark because we are so nasty dangerous and such a threat nothing wants us around so we were put on earth to live in isolation instead of extinction..maybe there is a reason we are here on this planet…maybe we as a species are becoming what we always become on a planet and thats why we got banished to earth..humans are too dangerous and must be isolated on this planet..we as a species are destructive to the environment and cannot coexist but it is intergalactic in scale..all the other soecies out there know all about us already and we are in protective detainment on earth with limited access to resources and primitive technology..they might have had the technology to put us here years ago it was so long ago the species lost track and started evolving as time passes,maybe “they” come here to check on humans from time to time
Imagine a world where we didn't go to Afghanistan or Iraq and instead gave the trillions of dollars to NASA?
JPL, Congratulations. You did it! You chose to be a more mature institution & published some unadulterated images of Mars in this video. It’s nice to see a blue sky! Thank you. It’d be interesting to learn about the piece of equipment that was able to photograph Curiosity from a few miles away shown at around 1:10.
“Mars remains a hostile world for many kinds of life. A system for creating small islands of habitability would allow us to transform Mars in a controlled and scalable way.Despite having the same raw ingredients as early Earth and similar, the necessary circumstances that enable life to form simply never occurred on Mars. All the geological and chemical processes that occur inorganically still happened, you see a much different environment. Mars is infamously red because of rusting iron throughout its dusty surface.Mars's surface is rocky and riddled with volcanoes. Additionally, the red planet also has only about one-third the gravity of Earth and a thinner atmosphere which would not be suitable for humans to breathe in. As per research, humans would need special equipment's to survive on the red planet.
NASA see no problem producing "Images" Not Photograghs of other so-called Planets. It took them over 40 years during their space stories to produce a second "Image" of Earth. The whole darn thing seems very suspect. Now I understand why people are leaning towards Flat Earth alternative.
1:03 17.5miles = 28.164km
1:08 2000ft = 609.6m
Congratulations to all the team members. The world is celebrating your success. Curiosity's achievement is an important event in human history.
I am amazed that it has already been 10 years since Curiosity's daring and successful landing on Mars. I am surprised that it has been 10 years since Curiosity's daring landing on Mars, because it is still a fresh surprise to me.
And I am grateful that you have been conducting scientific research on Mars successfully and successfully for the past 10 years.
I look forward to seeing more results from Curiosity in the future.
…meanwhile the local news in Mars undergrounds keeps reporting ufo sightings.
A lot of people live in small vans now so I think an astronaut on Mars or the Moon could too with supply points.
The reality is there's not much there and much of what we've learned about possibility of past life forms is fantasy and conjecture. It's a fun project for rich countries such as the US, but on the whole, it won't tangibly improve our lives one way or another or answer deep existential questions. We have everything we need right under our feet.
Those jeans look amazing 🤩🤩😍
The answer to the "big question" asked in the beginning of this video is "of course YES". And, Curiosity Rover has been trekking on Devon Island, Canada, all these years, not on Mars at all.
The cost of sending these rovers to Mars is sure a lot easier to swallow knowing that they are so durable.
I love you NASA thanks for the positive news it's needed now more than ever! 🙏🙇🌹❤️