Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 15:02 UTC aboard the MSL spacecraft and landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17 UTC. read more
NASA's newest Mars rover Curiosity is one month from landing on the Red Planet. Weighing in at 1 ton, Curiosity is the largest rover ever sent to Mars and is due to land late at night on Aug. 5 PDT (early Aug. 6 EDT). read more
On the left is a Mars Exploration Rover (MER) test vehicle that is a working sibling to Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2004. On the right is a test rover for the Mars Science Laboratory, which landed Curiosity on Mars in 2012. read more