Curiosity~Mars Rover

Nov. 26, 2011 Launch
Photograph by NASA

On Monday morning, around 12:31 A.M. (Central time), a rover called Curiosity landed on the surface of Mars. NASA launched Curiosity on November 26th, 2011 around 10:02 A.M. (Central time).

It was 2004, when the idea was brought up to send a rover to Mars. So really, it took the scientists eight years to work on the mission.

This rover was sent because NASA wanted to figure out and see if there was life on Mars and they wanted to collect data and temperatures for future astronaut missions. There are many more reasons. They also wanted to figure out if water used to be on Mars.

Below, is the video of NASA's "7 Minutes of Terror".