The rover «Curiosity»: a year on Mars

The other day there was quite an important event in the history of not only NASA, but humanity as a whole. The rover «Curiosity» stayed on the red planet for a year. We offer you a brief history of the events.

Self 177-day stay, 3 February 2013.





Testing in March 2011, in the laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.



Start to distant planets November 26, 2011 from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA.



Landing on Mars August 5, 2012.





Flight Director - Bobak Firduosi in the center of operations, Pasadena, Calif.



The first picture of employment on 6 August. Mount Sharp in front rover.



Result landing: top left - lander, bottom left - parachute and housing, to the right - the rover.



Photos X-ray spectrometer in a landscape of Mars, September 7, 2012.



Mount Sharp in a more familiar to the human eye spectrum. In fact, the sky above Mars is much brown.



Soil samples 3 July 2013.



The result of drilling the surface of Mars, February 4, 2013.



More samples of soil, October 7, 2012.



Part of the panorama, rover made in October and November 2012.



Night drilling in Cumberland, June 6, 2013.



Photos of garbage found on Mars, 11 October 2012.



The image of the American flag on the rover, September 19, 2012.



Photo satellites of Mars: Phobos (left) and Deimos (right), August 1, 2013.



Rover (blue dot at the bottom right) and his next trip from the landing site.



Piedmont Sharpe, July 9, 2013.



Image of Martian rock by a combination of eight shots, July 4, 2013.



The rover photographed his tracks, July 30, 2013.