How Does NASA's Curiosity Rover Work?

Curiosity is a car sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars. Did you know Curiosity's wheels have morse code on them?

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[gemboundprism]

'the rover has nobody to hug'
stares at NASA
buys a rocket
goes to mars
hugs rover

[darkdestiny]

So. How does it keep running? Does it run on a big battery?

[Keper]

And I thought the cut-outs were to let sand drop out...

[WOODMAN_pt]

Why didn´t they mention about Wolowitz as one of  NASA rover builders ? :o)

[CariagaXIII]

what if we came from mars but the people there destroyed it and moved to earth instead for a new life?

[mattMcLovinisbae]

never knew mars had their own satellites

[itsmikoton]

Human: Goes to Mars
Curiosity: Ah what an interesting moving rock *shoots human with lazer*
Human: OUCH I'm not a rock

[basketofpuppys]

10 or 15 sec ads are ok but 30 sec ads piss me off

[waveyan]

Out of all All the budget they had... They just had to choose that 40 year old processor.

[noahjz_]

What if there was life on Mars before life on earth and everything just went extinct because all the resources went low. Just a hypothesis

[naiyahp]

WHAT THE HECK $200, 00 for a circuit board that’s expensive but not bad

[Alittlebitinteresting]

Why not just surround the computer electronics with lead or something?

[martystevens]

How come the camera lens don't get messed up by dirt?

[naiyahp]

Damn why haven’t I subscribed to your channel yet until now

[greatestever]

So like I'm just a dumbass teen but like, how tf do u drive/control this rover. Like I remember my RC Car, I couldn't be more than 7 meters away from to control it. How tf u gonna drive that on mars. Not only that but wouldn't there be lag. Like when I watch streams on twitch, the stream is like 30 seconds behind. Imagine a live video from mars. Shit would take 10 minutes. Imagine that, that's like playing with 1 bar on cod mw2. The craziest part about it is that these robots were made back in 2003. How you make that rover in 2003 back didn't make the fidget spinner till 2017. That's crazy to me. Yea ik there's satellite there to boost the signals and all but still, unless it sends information at the speed of light, idk how they drive them rovers. Then again I'm just a dumbass teen.

[albertocunanan]

How did this rover sent to mars? On a rocket? How did this rocket oassed through the firmament? Is mars within the firmament? Or outside? Im confused.and how are they controlling the rover? Through radio waves? Millions of miles away? Really?

[paulpetroff]

how did it get past thermosphere and the fermiament?

[uncled]

How does a robot driving on a desert on Mars benefit humanity on earth?

[IahushaIahuah]

The Mars satellites should not be really closer by any significance if they are orbiting Mrs, that is stupid, were missing info here

[mynameiskranz]

What if i tell you that curiosity never reach mars?