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Latest News About Mars Science Laboratory, NASA's Newest Mars Rover
The Mars rover Curiosity, also known as the Science Laboratory, will launch in late 2011 and land on the Red Planet in August 2012.
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Space agencies can learn from partnership failures like the ExoMars mission.
Curiosity's colorful Adam Steltzer, Lead Engineer for Entry Descent and Landing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, narrates the complicated choreography required to land a big, heavy rover safely on the surface of Mars.
A team of 16 people is in charge of driving the 1-ton Curiosity rover.
The rover is in good health and will take a short test drive on Wednesday, Aug. 22.
The university has operated JPL since 1958.
Curiosity's 7-foot arm holds a suite of tools to explore Mars.
See images from the Mars rover Curiosity's first Red Planet drive, which took place Aug. 22, 2012.
Mars will be visible low in the western sky shortly after sunset.
Lead scientist for the Mars Science Laboratory John Grotzinger discusses Curiosity's first destination; exposed bedrock in the alluvial plane near the rover's landing site. Scientists hope to confirm if water flowed there on an ancient Mars.
NASA has a series of destinations planned for Curiosity, like the alluvial plain near the landing site and the base of Mount Sharp. But can 400 scientists not give in to the temptation to stop and examine every thing they see along the way?
Curiosity is slated to turn its wheels for the first time Tuesday or Wednesday.
The Curiosity rover fired 30 laser shots in 10 seconds to zap a rock on Mars.
The photo shows Curiosity and the rim of Mars' huge Gale Crater.
Curiosity could start blasting rocks this weekend.
Pop star Britney Spears used Twitter to chat up NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
NASA's Bobak Ferdowsi (Curiosity Flight Director) talks about this past weeks instrument check outs and panoramas and highlights activities coming up for the new Mars rover.
See new images beamed back from Mars by Curiosity rover.
Ferdowsi has worked on Curiosity's mission for almost nine years, but the world noticed him for his hairstyle.
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