Kuriosity Rover lands at Duna

Year 23, Day 114

The newest rover has landed on Duna, named Kuriosity, and plans to study the red planet in detail never seen before.

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That's right; another Duna rover has been landed on Duna by KSA! This one is truly special. Kuriosity was planned for years by KSA, and only recently got launched and sent to Duna.

Long-standing mission commanders and directors have been dreaming of the day their project finally touched down on the red sands of Duna. Their dream has finally been fulfilled.

Kuriosity plans to study what scientists believe could be a crater (nicknamed Kale Crater) that possibly once had liquid water billions of years ago; a dried lakebed.

Kuriosity will, over the course of years, attempt to crawl up to the rim of the crater. The reason it will take years is that it can't drive at night due to power conservation and lack of external lights to see, as well as its slow travel speed (1 m/s maximum). It will also, along the way, make stops to rest and perform scientific research on samples found on the ground, using its robotic arm with drills, microscopes, and sample collection devices attached to it to study the object in extreme detail.

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Kuriosity will persevere and discover what Kerbals have long dreamt of seeing and researching. Who knows; maybe it will discover life or the remains of it in the future, but we'll have to wait until it might.