{"id":422979,"date":"2026-04-29T06:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422979\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T06:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T06:28:11","slug":"six-years-of-curiositys-wheels-on-the-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/422979\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Years of Curiosity\u2019s Wheels on the Move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars rover used its right navigation camera \u2014 one of two on the rover\u2019s mast, or head \u2014 to capture the images in this timelapse, which spans six years of driving. The images were snapped between Jan. 2, 2020, and March 8, 2026 (the 2,633rd and 4,830th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, respectively). The images were taken when the mast was looking behind the rover to help the science team choose rocks to study.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity\u2019s team is using this timelapse to watch for sand grains shifting on the rover\u2019s deck. Distinguishing between sand jostled by each drive and wind gusts can provide new information about seasonal changes in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Curiosity was built by NASA\u2019s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which is managed by Caltech in Pasadena, California. JPL leads the mission on behalf of NASA\u2019s Science Mission Directorate in Washington as part of NASA\u2019s Mars Exploration Program portfolio.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more about Curiosity, visit:<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/msl-curiosity\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">science.nasa.gov\/mission\/msl-curiosity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA\u2019s Curiosity Mars rover used its right navigation camera \u2014 one of two on the rover\u2019s mast, or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422980,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,146824,85773,82,247],"class_list":["post-422979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-mars-science-laboratory-msl","tag-photojournal","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=422979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}