Mars Curiosity
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Continued Rover Coverage
Join the Conversation
- Facebook: Curiosity Fan Page
- Twitter: @MarsCuriosity
- Sketch It: Send Us Your Rover Designs and Mars Drawings (all ages welcome)
Rover Videos
- Curiosity Has Landed (Relive the nail-biting terror and joy as NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT).)
- Where were you when Curiosity landed?
- Curiosity's Descent
- Seven Minutes of Terror (Must See)
- What's It Like to Land on Mars?
- Next Mars Rover in Action (Narrated Play-by-Play)
- The Science of Curiosity
- William Shatner and the Grand Entrance
- Wil Wheaton and the Grand Entrance
- Go Curiosity -- A Message from John Grunsfeld
- Cruising with Curiosity:Martian Dune Buggy
- Mars in a Minute: Is Mars Really Red?
- Mars in a Minute: How Do You Get to Mars?
- Mars in a Minute: How Do You Land on Mars?
- Mars in a Minute: How Hard Is It to Land Curiosity on Mars?
- Mars in a Minute: Phoning Home: Communicating from Mars
- Great Convergence of Spacecraft around Mars
- Communicating with Curiosity
- Curiosity Speaks
- Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Flying Over Mars
- All Curiosity Videos
Multimedia
For Educators
For Students
Images
Materials
- Fact Sheet (Revised: 19 Nov. 2014) (PDF, 1.44 MB)
- Landing Press Kit (PDF, 4.95 MB)
- Planetary Protection for MSL Fact Sheet (PDF, 294 KB)
- Launch Press Kit (PDF, 5.21 MB)
- Brochure (PDF, 6.83 MB)
- Folder (PDF, 4.41 MB)
- Info Card (PDF, 583 KB)
- Mars Science Laboratory 2013 Lithograph Set (PDF, 2.14 MB)
- Sky Guide No. 1: What's Up With Mars? (PDF, 807 KB)
- Sky Guide No. 2: What's Up with Mars? (PDF, 0.98 MB)
- Curiosity Landing Activities (PDF, 588 KB)
- MSL Observing Certificate (PDF, 465 KB)
- MSL Curiosity Sticker (PDF, 499 KB)
Key Dates
- Launch: 26 November 2011
- Landing:
- 10:32 pm Pacific, 5 August 2012
- 11:32 pm Mountain, 5 August 2012
- 12:32 am Central, 6 August 2012
- 01:32 am Eastern, 6 August 2012
- 05:32 am UTC, 6 August 2012