News Article. Curiosity Findings Curiosity Rover Finds an Ancient Oasis on Mars New evidence suggests salty, shallow ponds once dotted a Martian crater — a sign of the planet's drying climate.

The $850 billion Wall Street bailout cost more than NASA’s entire 54-year existence.” A new space race? The new rover is estimated to cost $1.9 billion dollars and will carry a suite of 7 specialized instruments that will science the hell out of Mars. The video helped mission planners select the best path for Curiosity when the rover started exploring Gale Crater.

The NASA rover Curiosity landed on the surface of the red planet late last night. And it was all hugs at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in California. The specific coordinates of the site is: 4.6 degrees south latitude and 137.4 degrees east longitude. And the Curiosity rover?

Curiosity had a total cost of 2.5 billion dollars, yes, but it’s not like NASA went over to the Rover Depot, plucked the glamor model off the shelf and whipped out Uncle Sam’s credit card. The war in Iraq, by comparison, will cost each of us around $12,000.

APXS (Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer) › Ralf Gellert, Principal Investigator University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Per capita, it cost each American seven dollars.

The future is not something to throw away lightly either. Spectrometers. But first the rover has to land on Mars.

The Curiosity Land Rover landed at the base of Sharp Mountain, inside Gale Crater. The Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer is called APXS for short.

No, NASA spread the cost of this mission out over eight years. AHe said then the mission would cost about $1.5 billion, or 40 percent less than the $2.5 billion cost of the Mars Science Laboratory mission that landed the Curiosity rover on Mars in August 2012. Meet Curiosity Use this interactive experience to learn about the Curiosity Rover and its adventures in the Pahrump Hills region of Gale Crater on Mars.