Curiosity rover marks 2 years on Mars

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WASHINGTON: Nasa's rover Curiosity, the most advanced roving laboratory on Mars, has celebrated its second anniversary on the Red planet.
The unmanned spacecraft landed inside the Gale Crater on August 5, 2012 to start a multi-year mission to seek out areas where life could or may once have existed.

During its first year of operations, Curiosity fulfilled its major goal of determining if Mars ever offered environmental conditions favourable for microbial life, Nasa said.

During its second year, Curiosity has been driving towards long-term destinations on lower slopes of Mount Sharp. Those destinations are in an area beginning about 3 km southwest of the rover's current location, but an appetizer outcrop of a base layer of the mountain lies much closer— less than 500m from Curiosity.

Curiosity carries duplicate main computers. It has been operating on its B-side computer since a problem with the Aside computer prompted the team to command a side swap in February 2013.

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