NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates One Year On Mars

Posted by samzenpus on Monday August 5, 2013 @09:22AM from the happy-marsday dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The Curiosity rover celebrates one year on Mars today. 'The 1-ton robot has achieved a great deal in its 12 months on Mars, discovering an ancient streambed and gathering enough evidence for mission scientists to declare that the planet could have supported microbial life billions of years ago. And more big finds could be in the offing, as Curiosity is now trekking toward its ultimate science destination: the foothills of a huge and mysterious mountain that preserves, in its many layers, a history of Mars' changing environmental conditions.'"

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So... by djupedal · 2013-08-05 09:55 · Score: 3, Funny

Birthdays for anthropomorphized machines is all they got? Isn't it going to be another year before it gets to where it's headed? Wake me when it finds an ancient civilization - that or a fish head.
Re:Who can convince me it was worth it? by Mitchell314 · 2013-08-05 10:03 · Score: 4, Funny

Oblig - oh come on. This one's too obvious: http://xkcd.com/1232/

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Celebration by PPH · 2013-08-05 10:29 · Score: 4, Funny

Curiosity wakes up the next morning with a lampshade on its head and Martian hieroglyphics tattooed on its ass.

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