Curiosity milestone: NASA’s Mars rover drives 4,000 days on Red Planet

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"We’ve been anticipating these results for decades, and now Sequoia will tell us even more,” added the mission lead at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. Considering the difficult Martian environment, Curiosity is still in good shape. However, the rover's left Mastcam camera's filter wheel is jammed.

"The right camera needs to take nine times more images than the left to cover the same area. The teams also would have a degraded ability to observe the detailed color spectra of rocks from afar."

 

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