The Next Mars Rover
Curiosity is the biggest and most advanced rover ever built, designed to help answer an age-old question: Is there life on Mars?
Curiosity is scheduled to launch between November 25 and December 18 of 2011 and land on Mars in August 2012. It will be the first rover to use precision landing techniques to reach a specific point on the planet’s surface. In this image, engineers and scientists at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California are testing the rocket-powered descent stage (suspended above Curiosity), which will steer the rover down to a soft landing.
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