Curiosity landed in Gale crater on 6 August 2012, lowered on cables by a hovering “sky crane”. Within months it found that the crater once held a lake whose water could have supported microbes. Since then the rover has been climbing Mount Sharp, a 5 km high mountain of layered rock in the middle of the crater: each layer is a page in the history of Mars’s climate, from wet to dry. Curiosity runs on the heat of decaying plutonium, like the Voyager probes, which lets it work through dusty seasons. The position here is the latest one NASA published from the rover’s driving logs.
Where is the Curiosity rover on Mars?
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About Curiosity (recent position)
- Kind
- Rover (last known position)
- Agency
- NASA
- Date
- 2026-09-21
- Coordinates
- 4.825° S, 137.389° E
Today
NASA MMGIS current waypoint fetched 2026-09-27: sol 5021, site 125 drive 558, 137.3888471 E, -4.82513971. Date computed from sol number (approx +/-1 d). Changes as the rover drives; refresh from feed.
Questions and answers
How long has Curiosity been working?
Since August 2012, more than six times its planned two-year mission.
Why climb Mount Sharp?
Its layers were laid down over millions of years; climbing them is like reading Mars’s climate history from older to younger rocks.
Where the numbers come from
Values refresh every second in your browser; the published data are checked every 10 minutes and updated several times a day.