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By Greg Clark
Audio Producer
posted: 07:00 am ET
27 July 2000
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NASA's newest plan for its mission to Mars in 2003 relies on an already-demonstrated landing system to drop a rover to the red surface.

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Free from responsibilities to any larger craft, the rover could be the way of the future for Mars exploration, says the principal investigator for the vehicle's science payload.


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