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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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Not yet roving, but snapping away! During the new science laboratory's third day on Mars (Sol 3) Curiosity sent down high-res images of its surroundings from it's Mastcam.
NASA will stream the 1:30 p.m. ET update on Mars rover Curiosity live online.
The video takes a different spin on LMFAO's hit song "Sexy and I Know It."
Images from a European Mars satellite helped make Curiosity's touchdown last week the most precise landing on the Red Planet yet.
The Milky Way arches across this rare 360-degree panorama of the night sky above the Paranal platform, home of ESO’s Very Large Telescope in this amazing desktop wallpaper.
The photo was taken by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which circles the Red Planet.
The 1-ton robot has an energy-saving 'dream mode,' researchers revealed Tuesday.
The European Space Agency's Mars Express spacecraft recorded Curiosity's radio signals.
ESA's Mars Express orbiter set its radio antenna to hear the descent of the Mars Science Laboratory. The resulting signal was converted to human-rated audio: MSL's 20-minute entry is compressed to 19 seconds.
The huge NASA rover has its driving software loaded up for its first drive next week.
In this space wallpaper, Gale Crater is 154 km wide and is located at latitude 5.4 degrees south and longitude 137.9 degrees east.
Scientists pieced the 79 pictures into a mosaic.
Praise from the President of the United States – and a joke about Flight Director Bobak Ferdowsi viral hair style – were bestowed on the Mars Science Laboratory team. Pres. Obama underlined the programs importance for science and education.
President Barack Obama hailed NASA's Mars rover Curiosity team's landing as "mind-boggling."
President Obama will congratulate the scientists who landed the Curiosity rover on Mars last week.
Curiosity's CheMin instrument is vital to its search for habitability on Mars.
NASA's huge Mars rover Curiosity won't be the last mission to Mars.
Curiosity pulled off a stunning landing on the night of Aug. 5.
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