--- title: NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Martian Year With Selfie description: NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete its first Martian year on June 24th canonical: https://time.com/2913065/mars-curiosity-rover-selfie/ author: Hannah Goldberg article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-06-23T20:15:19.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T08:34:44.779Z article:section: Science og:title: NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Anniversary With New Selfie og:description: NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete its first Martian year on June 24th og:url: https://time.com/2913065/mars-curiosity-rover-selfie/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c4853ba9042605c/698698d5e8524b218a603941/mars-curiosity-rover-selfie.jpg?branch=production&width=946&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 946 og:image:height: 532 og:image:alt: NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover captures a selfie to mark a full Martian year -- 687 Earth days -- spent exploring the Red Planet. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Marks First Anniversary With New Selfie twitter:description: NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will complete its first Martian year on June 24th twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt0c4853ba9042605c/698698d5e8524b218a603941/mars-curiosity-rover-selfie.jpg?branch=production&width=946&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # NASA's Curiosity Rover Takes Selfie to Mark First Year on Mars > Sponsored content. 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NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover captures a selfie to mark a full Martian year -- 687 Earth days -- spent exploring the Red Planet.NASA/JPL by [Hannah Goldberg](https://time.com/author/hannah-goldberg/) ## Hannah Goldberg Jun 23, 2014 8:15 PM UTC NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover will [complete](http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/june/nasa-s-mars-curiosity-rover-marks-first-martian-year-with-mission-successes/#.U6iKVY1dVMp) its first Martian year on June 24th. The rover took a ‘selfie’ to commemorate its 687-day stay on the Red Planet — Earth days, that is. Curiosity made some groundbreaking findings in its first “year” on the planet. In Aug. 2012, Curiosity succeeded in its main mission, to determine if Mars ever harbored the environment to support microbial life. The Curiosity rover drilled into the Martian Gale Crater, in the Yellowknife region, finding a former lakebed containing what NASA called “essential elemental ingredients for life.” This spring, the rover spent its time collecting sandstone samples in Windjana, an area south west of the original Bradbury Landing site. 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