NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover landed on the Red Planet nine years ago and has beamed back a tremendous trove of images and data, to the delight of scientists and space geeks alike.
Last week, NASA released a new panoramic video that shows the rover's exploration as it climbs Mount Sharp, a 5-mile-tall (8 km) mountain in the 86-mile wide (154 km) basin of the Martian Gale Crater.
Curiosity Mars Rover's current location may hold the key in finding out how the area around Gale Crater dried up over time. "The rocks here will begin to tell us how this once-wet planet changed into the dry Mars of today, and how long habitable environments persisted even after that happened," said Abigail Fraeman of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS
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