Curiosity rover: 2,000 days on Mars

[hunter]

Nasa's Curiosity rover, also known as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), is celebrating 2,000 martian days (sols) investigating Gale Crater on the Red Planet. In that time, the robot has made some remarkable observations. Here are just a few of them, chosen by the Curiosity science team.



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http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-43494227

I doubt Mars will ever be home to fragile human beings because the benign Mars of The Martian is as fictional as an Edward Rice Burroughs novel, but I do hope our machines will continue to explore the planet. Perhaps someday our intellectual descendants will live there, intelligent engineered beings able to explore the planet's surface unencumbered by awkward space suits or worries about air, water, and food

[byronius]

1. Yes, radiation.

I like some of the tunnel concepts.

Just read The Geological Story of Venus by Peter Cattermore.

Now there's a Challenge.

[Permanut]

2. Incredible; thanks hunter. n/t