12 hours on Mars: What NASA cameras captured during a search mission on the red planet

Newly released images from NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover show a 12-hour time-lapse on the red planet from sunrise to sunset. 

NASA’s Curiosity rover was launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, in November 2011 and landed on Mars in August 2012. Since then, the rover has traveled nearly 20 miles on the red planet, capturing over 1.1 million images. The mission of the Curiosity rover is to identify whether Gale Crater, an area thought to be a dried-up lake, was habitable in the distant past.