Then, in 2017, JPL engineers uploaded new software ... inform the more durable wheel design of the Perseverance rover. And hopefully Curiosity's wheels will hold up for years to come.

NASA 's Curiosity rover captured this extremely wide snapshot as it traversed its extraterrestrial stomping grounds in Gale Crater this February. The agency has since converted that data into a ...

a Curiosity rover driver at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in a statement. This map shows the route NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover took from May into July to complete the most difficult ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover made a “mind-blowing” discovery ... The rock was broken open when Curiosity ran over it. NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS / SWNS “I think it’s the strangest find of the ...

According to JPL’s image description, the sand ripples and gravel that appear in the middle and at the bottom of this image were the sort of terrain that Curiosity first traversed. The rover ...

The team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which oversees the Mars rover missions, has just given Curiosity a new lease of life after installing its first major software update in seven ...

Pete Theisinger, the longtime employee of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory who led the Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity rover missions to Mars, died June 26 after a long illness. He was 78.

CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/SSI ... display called iridescence when the sun illuminates them. NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured this feather-shaped iridescent cloud just after sunset ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover appears as a dark speck in this contrast-enhanced view captured on Feb. 28, 2025, by the HiRISE camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Trailing Curiosity are ...

A view of the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on May 11, 2025. Photo courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech It is currently late autumn in Gale Crater, the region of Mars where Curiosity is exploring ...