Curiosity

Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Gale crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission.

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No Spoilers, Please! Why Curiosity Makes Us Patient

Curiosity has Reached an Ancient Debris Channel That Could Have Been Formed by Water

NASA's Curiosity rover films from dawn to dusk on Mars during downtime (video)

Curiosity has Seen its 4,000th Martian Sunrise

NASA's Curiosity rover clocks 4,000 days on Mars

Curiosity’s New Discovery: Ancient Riverbeds on Mars and the Potential for Life

New analysis of data from the Curiosity rover reveals that much of the craters on Mars today could have once been habitable rivers

What an animated taco reveals about curiosity and patience

Curiosity about religion is viewed as morally virtuous, new research finds

Curiosity Has Spent Three Years Trying to Reach This Spot on Mars

Mars in a Day: NASA’s Curiosity Captures Martian Morning and Afternoon in Single “Postcard”

This 'postcard' of a Mars day from NASA's Curiosity rover is gorgeous (photo)

Curiosity Takes One Final Postcard Image of a Picturesque Valley Before Moving on to its Next Destination

Curiosity rover finds water-carved 'book' rock on Mars (photo)

A “Novel” Discovery: NASA’s Curiosity Rover Finds a Book-Like Rock on Mars

NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover: We Made It to the Top!

Curiosity rover on Mars gets a brain boost to think (and move) faster

Research on three Ingredients to Resilience: 1. Increase awareness of stress and its manifestations while adopting an attitude of openness and curiosity. 2. Develop equanimity, a state of mind with neither attachment nor aversion toward experiences. 3. Increase coping flexibility.

Curiosity 2.0: NASA’s Mars Rover Software Upgrade Revs Up Performance

NASA’s Curiosity gets interplanetary software patch for better driving on Mars, and more — ‘The idea of hitting the install button was a little scary. Despite all our testing, we never know exactly what will happen until the software is up there.’