NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has been on the Red Planet for 2,000 days

With the increasingly steady stream of Mars-related news over the past couple of years it can be easy to forget that NASA has had high-tech hardware rolling around on the planet's surface for quite a while now. We got a great reminder of that today, as NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is celebrating its 2,000th Martian day rolling around on the dusty world. The journey hasn't always been easy, and NASA has be forced to rethink its approach to solving problems on more than one occasion, but Curiosity ...