The highest point on Mount Sharp is visible from the Curiosity rover in this NASA handout image dated Aug. 18, 2012.
Number of miles in NASA’s Curiosity Rover journey to Mars. Built by the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and carried by Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, the rover launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Nov. 26, 2011, and landed in Mars’ Gale Crater on Aug. 5, 2012, at 10:32 p.m. P.T.