Mars Science Laboratory Project Detail

Involvement information

  • Category: Space Exploration
  • Company: CNES, IRAP, JPL
  • Start date: 04 March, 2019
  • End date: 31 August, 2019
  • Project URL: www.mars.nasa.gov

Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012. Curiosity is a car-sized rover designed to explore the crater Gale on Mars as part of NASA's MSL mission.