CuriosityMarsRover

We did a poll in the room and no one is using KSP. Too busy it seems doing the real deal! - VM

The results from our first rock drilling told us that the past environment, when that mudstone rock formed, was suitable for life. The mudstone formed in an ancient river system or an intermittently wet lake bed that could have provided the chemical energy and other favorable conditions for microbial life, if life existed then. This ancient wet environment was not harshly oxidizing, acidic or extremely salty. All the necessary chemical building blocks were available. (JC)

Some things you get for free... EH

LOL (from the Canadian in the room). - VM

Curiosity has enough fuel to last for about a decade and is built to be robust. Mission length is one Mars year, two Earth years but we expect it to last much longer. - SM