CURIOSITY ROVER

The Mars Science Laboratory(MSL) always called

Curiosity rover is a rover type ship. It was launched to the space on 26 November 2011 to study Mars. It landed on the Gale crater on 6

August 2012.When the Rover arrives at Mars, it

tooks some photos to show that the landing was good. Curiosity Rover was in Mars for 4 years. In those 4

years it took a lot of photos.Here are some of them:

The rover body is called the warm electronics box, or "WEB" for short. It is

like a car body, the rover body is a strong, outer layer that protects the

rover's computer and electronics (which are basically the equivalent of the rover's brains and heart). The rover body keeps

the rover's vital organs protected and temperature-controlled.

You can check that Mars is a sandy and rocky planet. But the Curiosity Rover isn´t the only robot that arrives at Mars. In 2004,

there was another expedition there.

Although it looks incredible, the Curiosity Rover covered only 20 km of the ground of Mars.

The warm electronics box is closed on the top by a piece called the Rover Equipment Deck (RED). The Rover Equipment Deck makes the rover like a convertible car, allowing a place for the rover mast

and cameras to sit out in the martian air, taking pictures and clearly observing the martian terrain as it travels.

By : Yago Leis