80 Mars Rovers Trivia Questions with Answers
80 public questions with answers, drawn from the well. How many can you answer?
What is the name of the dune where the Opportunity rover got stuck in 2005?
Answer
Purgatory Dune
What was the name of the student who named the Sojourner rover?
Answer
Valerie Ambroise
Which Mars rover was the first to use a drill for sample cores?
Answer
Perseverance
What was the original mission name of the Curiosity rover?
Answer
Mars Science Laboratory
What is the name of the large crater that the Opportunity rover spent years exploring?
Answer
Endeavour Crater
Which Mars rover was the first to drill into a Martian rock?
Answer
Curiosity
What is the name of the landing site of the Curiosity rover?
Answer
Bradbury Landing
Which Mars rover discovered 'blueberries' (hematite spheres) on Mars?
Answer
Opportunity
Which Martian plain did NASA's Opportunity rover land on?
Answer
Meridiani Planum
Which Martian crater did NASA's Spirit rover explore?
Answer
Gusev Crater
What was the name of the first rock drilled by the Curiosity rover?
Answer
John Klein
On what date (UTC) did the Perseverance rover land on Mars?
Answer
February 18, 2021
Which rover was the first to use a sky crane landing system?
Answer
Curiosity
Which rover discovered evidence of ancient stream beds on Mars?
Answer
Curiosity
Which rover's wheel treads spell 'JPL' in Morse code?
Answer
Curiosity
What is the name of the Martian plain where China's Zhurong rover landed?
Answer
Utopia Planitia
Which rover's mission was planned for 90 days but lasted over 14 years?
Answer
Opportunity
Which rover's landing site is Jezero Crater?
Answer
Perseverance
Which rover carried the Ingenuity helicopter to Mars?
Answer
Perseverance
Which NASA rover landed in Gale Crater in 2012?
Answer
Curiosity
What is the name of the first Mars rover to successfully operate?
Answer
Sojourner