NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has currently marked 2000 days on the Mars.
That's 2,000 days by Martian standards. A Martian sol, or day, is corresponding to twenty four hours, thirty-nine minutes and thirty five seconds. So 2,000 days on Mars equal two,055 days here on Earth.
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| NASA's Mars Rover |
Either way, it is a massive milestone on for scientists looking forward to interest to start drilling once more, this point into probably clay-rich rocks on the slopes of Mount Sharp. The six-wheeled rover has traveled eleven.6 miles (18.7 kilometers) since its arrival in 2012.
The rover chance, though, has Curiosity beat.
Last month, NASA's busy chance surpassed its five,000 day on Mars. it has been exploring Mars since 2004. National Aeronautics and Space Administration plans to send another robotic man of science to Mars in might. Named InSight, the lander can keep in one place as a heat-measuring device burrows deep into the Martian piece of ground.
Curiosity's flight controllers, meanwhile, square measure testing a replacement drilling technique. The rover's drill stopped operating properly in 2016, so engineers devised otherwise to bore into Martian rocks and obtain the fine rock samples into the rover's science lab instruments.
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