06/08/2012
Quentin Cooper reports on the latest surface rover mission to Mars, NASA's Curiosity. It is twice as long, twice the science, and five times as heavy as its famous forebears.
Quentin Cooper reports on the latest surface rover mission to Mars - NASA's Curiosity, or Mars Science Laboratory - twice as long, twice the science, and five times as heavy as its famous forebears.
Landing on the floor of the Gale Crater, next to a mountain of sedimentary strata, the 10 different instruments carried on board will provide more knowledge of the geological history of Mars - including the possibility of microbial life during an earlier, wetter epoch of Mars' past - than any previous mission.
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