*Curiosity Rover’s self portrait at “John Klein” drilling site.
Photo by NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS*
The Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s is displaying more than 50 of its best photographs from the two Mars rovers, ten years after NASA first landed them on Mars.
The exhibit, “Spirit and Opportunity: 10 Years Roving Across Mars” opens Thursday and will feature photographs of craters, meteorites, rock formations, dust clouds, dunes and the Martian sunset, the AP reports.
NASA’s director of planetary science says the rovers made huge strides in gathering information about Mars to one day send humans there.
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