Curiosity Is Going To Spend Its Summer Driving Around a Dangerous Sandy Region on Mars

Curiosity Is Going To Spend Its Summer Driving Around a Dangerous Sandy Region on Mars
By Andy Tomaswick

Do road trips actually require roads? Not if you’re NASA’s Curiosity rover, who is embarking on an extended 1 mile long road trip this summer up the side of Mount Sharp. The rover will be moving between two “units” of Gale Crater, where it has been exploring since 2014.  It’s wrapping up experiments in the …

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July 18, 2020 at 07:43AM
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