One of NASA’s biggest missions was the Curiosity Rover. The Curiosity Rover can take pictures and panoramas of Mars and it’s landscape. Curiosity also has an arm that can collect sand and rocks from the landscape, and sends the materials to NASA scientists to compare and contrast rocks on Earth, to rocks, minerals, and sand on Mars. The goal that NASA scientists are trying to accomplish is to determine is whether Mars is a safe place for people to live. The Curiosity Rover was launched on November 6, 2011 and landed on Mars a full nine months later on August 6, 2012. Once it landed, it sent pictures and 3D panoramas of sand, sand dunes, ancient lakes, prominent mineral veins, and sandstone slabs. One of the rover’s more interesting discoveries
