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Chapter 2 of 4 · 2011-11-26

Sky crane landing

Curiosity

02 / 04

A rocket-powered sky crane lowered the rover onto Mars.

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been studying Gale Crater on Mars since 2012, reconstructing the planet’s ancient environments and habitability.

The mission returned data that shaped later exploration.

Autoportrét Curiosity na Marsu.
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