Mission rover: Mars Curiosity
Agency: NASA
Dry mass: 899kg
Launch date: 26th November 2011
Overview:
The main role for the Curiosity rover is to help determine whether Mars ever could have supported life as well as to study the climate and geology, as of March 2021 Curiosity has travelled 15.44 miles across the surface of Mars.
Mission rover: Mars Perserverance
Agency: NASA
Dry mass: 1,025kg
Launch date: 30th July 2020
Overview:
Landing only on 18th February 2021, this mission has set out to seek ancient signs of life and has the ambitious goals of launching a helicopter stowed in it's underbelly and to collect rocks for a potential return back to Earth for study.
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