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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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Since the 1960s, humans have invaded our neighboring planet Mars with swarms of spacecraft. Only half of the attempts ever succeeded.
The Mars rover Curiosity placed the rock powder sample from a drilled Martian rock into two onboard instruments.
Parts of the Red Planet may be exposed to flowing water seasonally.
The Red Planet's signature color is only skin deep.
For the first time on Mars, a rover has collected a rock sample using a drill. Curiosity's drill captured about 1 table spoon of Martian rock.
The rover drilled into rock on the Martian surface on February 8th and 20th, 2013. Samples were also transferred back to the rover for analysis. The drill was demonstrated by NASA using Curiosity's twin here on Earth.
See photos of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity's first drilling success.
NASA's Mars rover made a giant leap for space exploration when it drilled its first sample of Red Planet rock.
The press conference starts at 3 p.m. EST and may discuss Curiosity's drilling work on Mars.
The president's annual address rarely mentions NASA, spaceflight or exploration.
A strange and shiny object on Mars photographed by NASA's Curiosity rover is just an odd-looking rock, scientists say.
The Iranian-American Bobak Ferdowsi will help highlight President Barack Obama's call for more visas for skilled immigrants in the fields of math, science and engineering.
The Mars rover Curiosity drilled into the rock "John Klein' to collect the Martian sample.
Curiosity drilled about 0.8 inches (2 centimeters) into a Martian rock called John Klein.
The robot pounded the rock with its arm-mounted drill but has apparently not spun the drill bit yet.
The robot has been sizing up a target rock and flexing its robotic arm.
See amazing shots of Mars sent back by NASA's Curiosity Rover.
The photos show Mars at night in visible and ultraviolet light.
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