A Year of Curiosity on Mars

Curiosity Rover team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., re-live the dramatic Aug. 6, 2012 landing and the mission's achievements to date in an event aired on NASA Television and the agency's website. In the year since inspiring millions of people worldwide with its one-of-a-kind landing in a crater on the Red Planet, Curiosity has achieved its primary scientific objective; finding evidence that ancient Mars could have sustained microbial life and has returned invaluable scientific data and images.

[DrogoBaggins]

My thanks to all who make these missions possible.

[sizzlebread]

It is worth watching all of it - each person has something unique and interesting to say.

[atomicLogic]

I cry every time I see the live reactions to Curiosity landing.

[silenthunterand]

Congratulations to the entire team of scientists engaged in the mission curiosity!
From Brazil.

[stkras]

Congratulations! Thank you everyone for allowing us to follow along this incredible journey. I watch everyday and feel apart of the team. Looking forward to years of discovery in the years that follow.

All the best,

Steve Krasner

[adamphillip]

Wow you NASA guys are the best and for those who put down the team I'd like to see you try there job

[krishjaya]

congratulations to the entire team NASA created the history.

[MrSkyguy]

Amazing stuff. I remember being up that night watching the event online and on TV. A true example of the best in U.S. engineering know-how.
Oh yes... I nearly forgot about that *awesome* science stuff that we will get back for hopefully years to come.

[ChristopherMei]

Yes. Of Course.
--backs up slowly not breaking eye contact and then runs for it-

[MrSkyguy]

Technology developed by NASA has certainly been applied to day-to-day uses - which is just one of the many reasons NASA is so amazing. You will get no argument from me on that point.
However, if you are saying that the development costs anything close to defense or healthcare, you are very mistaken.

[teathomass]

Was there on NASA.tv while it was going on! I really have to thank the YouTuber KurtJMac for reintroducing me to all of this, it has changed my life and my future hopes for what I want to do as a living.

[AnimatedPork]

i cant watch all of this, but i made it to 0:01:54 i am happy with that :P

[jete]

I applaud the success of Curiosity, however IMHO NASA needs missions that move humans towards becoming a multi-planetary (and hopefully one day multi-system) species? It would seem to me that it would be more useful target the poles where it is likely that ice is at the surface and start trying to get an idea of how much is on and below the surface that could be useful in sustaining “future” life, as in a human colony.

[vonarroberts]

Exploration benefits everyone in way's that may not be obvious to the common man, or useful to us at this moment. For example the Apollo program lead to more advanced computers that could do more processes easier then before which eventually lead to the internet age. With Mars exploration we are paving the way for a future human colony, and the development of a space-based human race this is necessary if we hope to survive long term as a species as a single planet species is doomed to extinction

[vonarroberts]

Any resources that we find on Mars would be unaffordable to transport and use for Earth-based industries at the present day, and would be best used to support the development of a human colony on Mars.

[jiusvlogs]

Surely there is a connection between Pyramid and march clue of evidence..

[عبداللهرويشد-كو]

I'm kind of wondering, what if in the next couple of centuries we're to be able to build facilities on Mars to create an Ozone layer like the one Earth has. And then building a bunch of cloud generators. Finally, putting some organisms (bacteria, protests, plants, some animals) to make it 'our second home'. Is all that probable or even possible?

[dcoxen]

There's far more oxygen than methane in the Martian atmosphere.

[kristianna]

As Curiosity had followed Opportunity and Spirit in our exploration of Mars, what will come after this rover. What is the long term objective in sending rovers in Solar Exploration, are we going to send rovers to Europa, Titan, Uranus, Saturn and the four dwarfs? As Curiosity celebrates its first birthday; what will its second birthday be like in 2014?

[jatigre]

I think its time to send an oil drilling team to Mars. I'm pretty sure there's plenty of Oil there.