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NASA's Curiosity Rover Celebrates One Year On Mars

Posted by samzenpus on 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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  1. Who can convince me it was worth it? by bogaboga · · Score: -1, Troll

    "The Curiosity rover celebrates one year on Mars today.

    Question is: Was the cost worth it?

    I don't think so. In otherowrds, there's tons of better ways to spend all the billions injected into this project.