13 Years on Mars: How NASA's Curiosity Rover Keeps Defying the Odds
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Evan Ackerman
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The article recounts the Curiosity rover's 13-year journey on Mars, from its dramatic skycrane landing in 2012 to its ongoing scientific mission. It highlights the rover's impressive stats (37 km traveled, 42 rock samples, 763,000 photos) and details the ingenious engineering fixes and workarounds that have kept the aging robot operational despite harsh Martian conditions, including wheel damage, computer glitches, and drill malfunctions.
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· 3 pulledThe fact that this robot is still hard at work, getting real science done at the age of 13, is absolutely incredible—not only is Mars a harsh environment, but the rover was only designed for a two-year primary mission.
It takes some special tricks to maintain a robot 200 million kilometers from home.
Curiosity has traveled nearly 37 kilometers, drilled into and sampled 42 different rocks, and as of publication has snapped nearly 763,000 photos.
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