PHOTOS: MSL Rover Curiosity On Mars

Click here to see some of the first images taken by NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on August 5, 2012 and transmitted to Spaceflight Operations Facility for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. The MSL Rover named Curiosity is equipped with a nuclear-powered lab capable of vaporizing rocks and ingesting soil, measuring habitability, and whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbe. (Photos by NASA/JPL-Caltech via Getty Images)