[Infowarrior] - NASA's Curiosity rover lands on Mars

[Richard Forno]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-19141172


Nasa's Curiosity rover lands on Mars


6 August 2012 Last updated at 01:28 ET Help

Curiosity - also known as the Mars Science Laboratory - has spent the past eight months travelling from Earth to Mars, covering more than 560 million km.

It is equipped with the most sophisticated science payload ever sent to another world.

Its mission, when it gets on the ground, is to characterise the geology in Gale and examine its rocks for signs that ancient  environments on Mars could have supported microbial life.


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