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Curiosity rover marks 5,000 days on Mars with new panorama
Original: Curiosity Rover Celebrates Its 5,000th Day on Mars With Panorama of Sandy Ridge https://petapixel.com/2026/10/06/curiosi
NASA's Curiosity rover has passed its 5,000th day of operations on Mars, and the mission team released a new panorama of the sandy ridge where the robot is currently exploring. The images showcase the terrain Curiosity has been studying as it continues its long-running investigation of the Martian surface, more than a decade after landing in Gale Crater in 2012. Space and photography enthusiasts are sharing the milestone and the striking landscape imagery.
Why now: Space enthusiasts are marking the rare milestone of a Mars rover reaching 5,000 days of operations and sharing the new images it returned.
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- Curiosity Rover Celebrates Its 5,000th Day on Mars With Panorama of Sandy Ridge https://petapixel.com/2026/10/06/curiosity-rover-celebrates-its-5000th-day-on-mars-with-panorama-of-sandy-ridge/ # Space # Science # Photography · petapixel@robot.villas · 8
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