The Curiosity rover has been roaming around the barren red planet for almost a year now, so here’s a time lapse video showing us exactly what it has been getting up to for the past 12 months.
The Curiosity rover left Cape Canaveral in November 2011 and travelled on an 9-month journey through space before reaching its destination in the Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012.
The rover, which cost roughly €1.8 billion, has been digging around Mars taking samples of the land and NASA recently announced that based on these samples, there’s no evidence of recent life, but there may have been ancient life some several billion years ago.
The 2-minute time-lapse video was created by combining the 548 images shot by the Curiosity front “Hazard-Avoidance Camera”.
Sadly, we don’t get to see E.T. or any of his buddies, but it’s still pretty cool to see what the billion dollar machine has been getting up to.
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