For more information on the Mars Curiosity Rover, check out our article: 10 Cool Facts About The Mars Curiosity Rover 10 Mars Curiosity Rover Facts Mars Curiosity Rover Fact #10: Slow to Roll The Curiosity Rover has been on Mars over 1,100 days and hasn’t traveled more than 12 miles from its landing site.
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10 Cool Facts About The Mars Curiosity Rover tl;dr: check out our 10 Mars Curiosity Rover Facts Infographic. The Curiosity, a Mars Rover, landed with the help of a robotic space probe by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). The Curiosity Rover launched in November of 2011 by NASA. The rover landed in Aeolis Palus in the Gale
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10 Cool Facts About The Mars Opportunity Rover The Mars Opportunity Rover is NASA’s robot that has been on Mars since 2004. In fact, Opportunity has exceeded NASA’s operation plans by more than 11 years. The Mars Opportunity Rover has been gathering scientific data and sending it back to Earth for over a decade. Opportunity
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10 Cool Facts About The Mars Spirit Rover The Mars Spirit Rover is a computerized device operated by NASA which was sent to conduct a scientific exploration on planet Mars. It first landed on the planet on January 4, 2004 (at a longitude and latitude of 14.5684 degrees South and 175.4726 degrees East). This was
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The Moons of Mars tl;dr Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, it’s red and there may or may not be Martians there. Most importantly, Mars has two moons; Phobos and Deimos. These two moons are named after scary characters from Greek Mythology; Phobos known for panic and fear, Deimos known for terror. There’s
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We, as humans, have been dreamers since the dawn of our existence. As far-fetched dreams go, humans colonizing Mars, represents one of the most dazzling dreams the human race has ever yearned for. Ever since the “discovery” of what appeared to be canals on Mars, by Giovanni Schiaparelli, in 1877, we’ve salivated at the thought
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For more information on Mars, check out our article: Cool Facts About Mars. 10 Facts About Mars – the Last Terrestrial Planet Mars has long been part of Human’s fascination, mythology, fear, imagination and even pop culture. From ancient times and the big red dot in the sky, which they appropriately named after the Roman god of
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tl;dr: check out our 10 Facts About Mars Infographic. We’ve been making our way through the Solar System and learning all sorts of new and cool facts about the planets, if you’ve missed the others, check these out when you get a chance: Mercury, Venus and Earth! Mars is a special planet, this one’s close to us
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