Curiosity, the big rover of This artist's concept depicts the moment that NASA's Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, launched Nov. 26, 2011, will deliver Curiosity to the surface of Mars on the evening of Aug. 5, 2012, PDT (early on Aug. 6, Universal Time and EDT) to begin a two-year prime mission. Curiosity’s landing site is near the base of a mountain inside Gale Crater, near the Martian equator. Researchers plan to use Curiosity to study layers in the mountain that hold evidence about wet environments of early Mars.
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Posted on April 28, 2012
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