Also bigger? This things the size of a goddamn car. They had to come up with a completely new way to land the thing it was so big. Not to mention electricity from a nuclear source. It’s technically a self-contained laboratory, not titled a rover as the other ones were
Was watchin it the whole time. Sitting in my room, listening intently to their announcements about the heartbeat signals, parachute deployment, telemetry data streaming from Odyssey, the two pics we got, AWESOME
It’s not like Curiosity is the first rover on Mars. Spirit and Opportunity are already there, though not operating very effectively any more. Sure this one is bigger and has more scientific instruments with it.