Curiosity Mars Rover in its 8th Year on the Red Planet Wall Art Android phone case Credit: ESO/VISTA

Credit: ESO/VISTA

visible as small

The WFI is able to observe the light from these distant galaxies

the bubble is the visible remnant of a powerful stellar explosion in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC)

Curiosity Mars Rover in its 8th Year on the Red Planet Wall Art Android phone case Credit: ESO/VISTANASA's Curiosity Mars Rover touched down eight years ago, on Aug. 5, 2012, and will soon be joined by another rover, Perseverance, which launched on July 30, 2020. Curiosity has seen a lot since it first set its wheels inside the 96 mile wide (154 kilometer wide) basin of Gale Crater. Its mission: to study whether Mars had the water, chemical building blocks, and energy sources that may have supported microbial life billions of years ago. Since