In its first year on Mars, Curiosity has taken more than 70,000 images, fired more than 75,000 laser shots to check soil and rock composition, and driven … an entire mile. While that may not seem very far, NASA says it’s enough to determine that Mars could have once supported life and to lay the groundwork for a future manned mission to Mars.

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August 6, 2013 at 3:40 p.m. UTC
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