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Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral (CCAFS) on November 26, 2011, at 15:02:00 UTC and landed on Aeolis Palus inside Gale crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17:57 UTC. The Bradbury Landing site was less than from the center of the rover's touchdown target after a journey. Mission goals include an investigation of the Martian climate and geology, assessment of whether the selected field site inside Gale has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life (including investigation of the role of water), and planetary habitability studies in preparation for human exploration. In December 2012, Curiosity two-year mission was extended indefinitely, and on August 5, 2017, NASA celebrated the fifth anniversary of the Curiosity rover landing. On August 6, 2022, a detailed overview of accomplishments by the Curiosity rover for the last ten years was reported. The rover is still operational, and as of , Curiosity has been active on Mars for sols ( total days; ) since its landing (see current status). The NASA/JPL Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity Project Team was awarded the 2012 Robert J. Collier Trophy by the National Aeronautic Association "In recognition of the extraordinary achievements of successfully landing Curiosity on Mars, advancing the nation's technological and engineering capabilities, and significantly improving humanity's understanding of ancient Martian habitable environments." Curiosity rover design serves as the basis for NASA's 2021 Perseverance mission, which carries different scientific instruments.

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“Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.”
— Isaiah Berlin, The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998), pp. 1–2.
“Perhaps one day men will no longer be interested in the unknown, no longer tantalized by mystery. This is possible, but when man loses his curiosity one feels he will have lost most of the other things that make him human.”
— Arthur C. Clarke, The Promise of Space, Berkley Publishing Group, 1 January 1985, p. 293.
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
— Walt Disney, As quoted in the ending credits of the movie Meet the Robinsons (2007) and also in Jane Sutcliffe Walt Disney, Lerner Publications, 2009, p. 45.
“Platon estime qu'il y ait quelque vice d'impiété à trop curieusement s'enquerir de Dieu et du monde.”
— Plato holds that there is some vice of impiety in enquiring too curiously about God and the world.
“I have perceived a most faint neglect of late, which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness.”
— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 73.
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
— Steven Wright, The Book of Uncommon Quips and Quotations, Pustak Mahal, 1 January 2003, p. 26.

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Notable quotes

“Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.”
— Isaiah Berlin, The Proper Study of Mankind: An Anthology of Essays (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998), pp. 1–2.
“Perhaps one day men will no longer be interested in the unknown, no longer tantalized by mystery. This is possible, but when man loses his curiosity one feels he will have lost most of the other things that make him human.”
— Arthur C. Clarke, The Promise of Space, Berkley Publishing Group, 1 January 1985, p. 293.
“Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
— Walt Disney, As quoted in the ending credits of the movie Meet the Robinsons (2007) and also in Jane Sutcliffe Walt Disney, Lerner Publications, 2009, p. 45.
“Platon estime qu'il y ait quelque vice d'impiété à trop curieusement s'enquerir de Dieu et du monde.”
— Plato holds that there is some vice of impiety in enquiring too curiously about God and the world.
“I have perceived a most faint neglect of late, which I have rather blamed as mine own jealous curiosity than as a very pretence and purpose of unkindness.”
— William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act I, scene 4, line 73.
“Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.”
— Steven Wright, The Book of Uncommon Quips and Quotations, Pustak Mahal, 1 January 2003, p. 26.

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