10 Years Ago Today Curiosity rover landed on Mars, page 1

posted on Aug, 5 2022 @ 05:26 PM

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10 years ago today we first experienced the 7 minutes of terror as we waited to hear if Curiosity rover's bold sky crane touchdown system had worked then breathed a huge sigh of relief when confirmation came that Curiosity had indeed landed safely in Gale crater.

10 years later Curiosity has taken more than 700,000 raw images , traveled over 14 miles , climbed 2,000 ft up a mountain and witnessed over 2,800 Martian sunsets.

Dusty and a little battered with holes in the soles of its shoes this little rover is 10 today.

Happy 10th anniversary to NASA and the Curiosity team , outstanding work.

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just4fun

posted on Aug, 5 2022 @ 05:30 PM

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I remember the thread on here when it landed and sent back that first pic.

People were saying they swear they see a finger on the first image.

Alien Abduct

posted on Aug, 5 2022 @ 05:57 PM

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originally posted by: just4fun
I remember the thread on here when it landed and sent back that first pic.

People were saying they swear they see a finger on the first image.

It was a real finger, I was there.

TheGreazel

posted on Aug, 6 2022 @ 07:13 AM

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I was blown away at the time how good the sky crane worked.

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Ravenwatcher

posted on Aug, 6 2022 @ 08:10 AM

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Yet it's still running without any maintenance after 10 years - The fanciest newest cars can't even do that .

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GENERAL EYES