Key learning points

1. ‘Curiosity: The Story of a Mars Rover’ is a non-fiction narrative text.
2. It contains some, but not all of the features readers might expect from a non-fiction text.
3. When creating the Curiosity rover, the scientists and team at NASA had to plan for lots of different eventualities.
4. The Curiosity rover had to conduct its own experiments; it needed all the equipment it required to be sent with it.
5. To be successful, the team tested for many years, until the rover was ready to launch on the 26th November 2011.

Keywords

• Non-fiction - a genre of text which presents real events, information, or knowledge.

• Features - distinctive characteristics that belong to a text type

• Impression - initial feelings about a person, place or thing, gained from reading a text

Common misconception