Curiosity Mars Rover in its 8th Year on the Red Planet Wall Art Android phone case Image Credit: ESA and the

Image Credit: ESA and the PACS

because the less-sensitive detector reduced the glare of the Flame portion of the nebula enough to bring out details of the rest of the nebula

The fantasy-like landscape of the nebula is sculpted by the action of outflowing winds and scorching ultraviolet radiation from the monster stars that inhabit this inferno

visible as small

Credit: ESO/VISTA

Curiosity Mars Rover in its 8th Year on the Red Planet Wall Art Android phone case Image Credit: ESA and theNASA's Curiosity Mars Rover touched down eight years ago, on Aug. 5, 2012, and will soon be joined by another rover, Perseverance, which launched on July 30, 2020. Curiosity has seen a lot since it first set its wheels inside the 96 mile wide (154 kilometer wide) basin of Gale Crater. Its mission: to study whether Mars had the water, chemical building blocks, and energy sources that may have supported microbial life billions of years ago. Since