Time-lapse shows Curiosity rover’s past year on Mars in just two minutes

We're fast coming up on the one-year anniversary of when the Mars Curiosity rover performed its spectacular 'seven minutes of terror' landing on the Red Planet, and the rover's team here on Earth put together a two-minute video of its activities so far.

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I have to say, I love this stuff. Even if it's just a pieced-together, abbreviated look at what Curiosity has been up to, it's still absolutely amazing that this robot is millions of kilometres away, performing this work on the surface of another planet... and what's better, is that we get a nearly daily look at what it's doing!

Seriously. You can check out all the raw images the rover takes, with its 17 different cameras, right on the JPL website. As of today, Friday, August 2nd, they have Sol 351 (August 1st) images available.

You can check out the latest panorama image they pieced together from all of those tiny pictures here: Billion-Pixel View From Curiosity at Rocknest.

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