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NASA in high gear for Mars rover launch – gulfnews.com
If all goes as planned and Curiosity lands intact in about nine months, on August 5, 2012, the rover will be able to report back to scientists on what it finds…
Cape Canaveral, Florida: The US space agency is poised to launch the most powerful and advanced robotic rover ever built to explore Mars and hunt for signs that life may once have existed on the red planet.
The Mars Science Laboratory, a six-wheeled vehicle powered by nuclear fuel, is scheduled to begin its journey at 10:02 am (1502 GMT) Saturday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida atop an Atlas V rocket.
“This is a Mars scientist’s dream machine,” Ashwin Vasavada, MSL deputy project…
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