NASA Curiosity Rover Achieves Major Milestone, Completes 2,000 Days on Mars

NASA's famous Curiosity Mars rover has achieved a major milestone and completed 2,000 days, aka sols, on the red planet. The robotic car-sized rover landed on the Martian landscape in August 2012 and has been devoted toward making critical finds for the space agency ever since. It has driven nearly 12 miles inside the Gale crater, diving into the history of the planet and understanding how it evolved over several billion years. Throughout its journey from the landing site to the current location on Mount Sharp of the crater, Curiosity made a number of discoveries. However, the biggest find continues to be the discovery of a riverbed that first indicated that liquid water flowed on the surface of the planet.