From NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, scientists gave an update on the next stage of operations for the rover Curiosity after landing on Mars the previous day. NASA’s $2.6 billion Rover Curiosity successfully landed on Mars August 6, 2012. The spacecraft had been traveling away from Earth since November 26, 2011, on a journey of approximately 352 million miles. The Curiosity rover began to broadcast images from Mar’s surface within two hours of its landing. NASA released the first color picture from the rover showing the landscape of Mars.