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Curiosity

NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory · United States · 2011

Nuclear-powered NASA rover exploring Gale Crater and Mount Sharp to assess ancient Martian habitability.

Specifications

1. [1]NASA PDS Analyst's Notebook — MSL Instrument Host · third party · retrieved 2026-08-14“2.2 m total height”
2. [2]NASA Science — Mars Curiosity Rover · manufacturer · retrieved 2026-08-14“1,982 lbs (899 kg) in Earth gravity”
3. [3]NASA PDS Analyst's Notebook — MSL Instrument Host · third party · retrieved 2026-08-14“The Robot Arm (RA) is a 5 degree-of-freedom manipulator”
4. [4]NASA PDS Analyst's Notebook — MSL Instrument Host · third party · retrieved 2026-08-14“The rover has a top speed on flat hard ground of ~4 cm/s”
5. [5]The Planetary Society — Cost of MSL Curiosity · third party · retrieved 2026-08-14“The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity project cost $2.53 billion”

Specifications drift. Each retrieval date is shown so a stale number is visibly stale rather than quietly wrong.