Curiosity Rover Celebrates 13 Years on Mars with Well-Deserved Naps and Red Planet 'Coral'

NASA's Curiosity Rover Grows More Powerful After 13 Years On Mars

Happy 13th birthday to the Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, 2012.

Curiosity rover celebrates 13 years on Mars with well-deserved naps and Red Planet 'coral'

Thirteen years into its mission, NASA's Curiosity rover is still uncovering Martian mysteries while learning to do more with less.

NASA explains how it keeps the Curiosity rover running, 13 years later

Thirteen years ago, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, inside Gale crater in particular. It was originally sent to the red planet for a two-year mission, but it was extended indefinitely just a few months into its operations. The rover has several goals, most of which are meant to help scientists determine whether Mars could ever have supported life in the past. And while it's still very much operational and doing science, NASA has had to make …

Curiosity Looks Back Toward Its Landing Site

This view of tracks trailing NASA’s Curiosity rover was captured July 26, 2025, as the rover simultaneously relayed data to a Mars orbiter.NASA/JPL-Caltech NASA’s Curiosity rover captured a view of its tracks on July 26, 2025. The robotic scientist is now exploring a region of lower Mount Sharp, a 3-mile-tall (5-kilometer-tall) mountain. The pale peak of the mountain can be seen at top right; the rim of Gale Crater, within which the mountain sit…

Mars' Loneliest Birthday: Why Curiosity stopped singing

Happy Mag https://happymag.tv Spoiler: Science > sentimentality. Thirteen years ago, NASA’s Curiosity rover touched down on Mars, and for one fleeting moment, it celebrated in the most human way possible: by singing Happy Birthday... Happy Mag https://happymag.tv