Space Rover

Space Rover

1. A rover is a small, mobile robot that scientists send to moons and planets to land on their surfaces and explore. Rovers can take pictures and collect information about the planet by taking temperature readings, rock, and soil samples.

2. hrough space exploration, we gain a new perspective to study Earth and the solar system. We advance new technologies that improve our daily lives, and we inspire a new generation of artists, thinkers, tinkerers, engineers, and scientists

3. Early in its mission, Curiosity's scientific tools found chemical and mineral evidence of past habitable environments on Mars. It continues to explore the rock record from a time when Mars could have been home to microbial life.

4. Unlike previous rovers, Curiosity did not have its landing cushioned by air bags; rather, because of its large size, it was lowered to the surface by three tethers from the spacecraft's body, called the sky crane. The landing sequence was highly intricate.