NASA’s robotic rover Curiosity is about to take on the mission it was sent to Mars to perform.

After a little more than two years on the Martian surface, Curiosity finished a more than six-mile trip to the base of Mount Sharp and is about to begin its next, and biggest, scientific mission — ascending the mountain and performing scientific experiments along the way.

“The next phase of research on Mars can begin,” said Jim Green, director of NASA’s Planetary Science Division. “We have finally arrived at the far frontier that we have sought for so long.”

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