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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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The name is a tribute to the city in Canada's Northwest Territories, a famous jumping-off point for geologists.
These instructions can help you build your own LEGO Mars rover model.
The six-wheeled robot is updating to software optimized for surface operations.
The short-lived dust cloud is likely the crash of the descent stage for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.
It looks like there will be no shortcuts to the Martian subsurface for NASA's Curiosity rover.
The software transition will prepare Curiosity for its mission on the surface of Mars.
This color full-resolution space wallpaper showing the heat shield of NASA's Curiosity rover was obtained during descent to the surface of Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT).
Gale Crater is a unique and intriguing place, researchers say.
The data could help pave the way for human exploration of Mars.
Curiosity is working perfectly so far, researchers say.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is giving the Red Planet a taste of paparazzi.
Curiosity's new Martian environs look a lot like California's Mojave Desert.
A flying saucer-like heat shield protected NASA's new Mars rover during its landing Aug. 5.
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped its first 3-D views.
On Curiosity's docket today is deploying its mast and establishing direct-to-Earth communications.
Astrophysicist Mike Shara – who is also Curator of space science exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History – is ecstatic about Curiosity’s successful landing. SPACE.com’s Dave Brody spoke with him the morning after touchdown.
Earthlings will become virtual Martians as they live and work on a Mars schedule to control NASA's new rover.
SPACE.com correspondent Rod Pyle's video blog takes us backstage at NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab in the hours leading up to MSL/Curiosity's thrilling landing.
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