The nuclear-powered rover is being designed to assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life. On one hand, MSL closes out an intensive period of ...

Aug. 6, 2012 — -- Curiosity, NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover ... by low-resolution navigation cameras on the rover's chassis, meant to show the ship's location and condition ...

Compared to Sojourner, the dowdy little robot that tooled around on Mars for three months in 1997, the atomic-powered Mars Science Laboratory rover being built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

That being said, and while now a solo mission, there is already talk that MSL may follow in the wheel tracks of Spirit and Opportunity - that is, doubling up on Mars. You may like Curiosity rover ...

For NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, the real fun will start 50 seconds before touchdown when the one-ton nuclear-powered rover falls free of its parachute for a nail-biting rocket-powered final ...

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After nearly a decade of planning, several cost overruns and a two-year delay, NASA is finally set to launch its next Mars rover this week. The car-size Curiosity rover, the centerpiece of NASA's ...

The Mars Science Laboratory is the most expensive and complex lander ever sent to the red planet, a nuclear-powered rover that will scale a 3-mile-tall mountain to seek the building blocks of life.

When NASA's newest Mars rover dives into the Martian atmosphere next year, it will be cocooned in the largest "beat the heat" system ever sent to the Red Planet.

which rises more than 5km above the crater floor The delivery of Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory rover, external, known as Curiosity, to the surface of the Red Planet is a mouth-watering prospect.

The MSL rover would depart from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Eastern Test Range during a 20-day launch period, opening as early as October 2009 and closing in November 2009. Given its potential to ...