Mars rover landing

• The biggest rover ever launched to another planet is just one month away from its target: the Red Planet, Mars. NASAs huge Curiosity rover is hurtling toward a planned late-night landing on Mars on Aug. 5 PDT (early Aug.
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• In just six weeks, NASAs next Mars rover will attempt an unprecedented landing on the Red Planet that will have mission engineers on the edge of their seats with excitement and worry. The 1-ton Curiosity rover — the centerpiece of NASAs $2.
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• In just 41 days, on August 5, NASAs Mars Science Laboratory rover will touch down on the Red Planet, and this will be no ordinary landing. In fact, NASA has dubbed the descent, Seven Minutes of Terror.
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• The Sky-Crane was also intended to be part of Nasas contribution to the next scheduled Mars landing, the 2018 rover of the European-led ExoMars mission.
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• Mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announced yesterday, July 6, that the Mars the landing can succeed.
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• NASAs $2.
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• And then what? And then we will have two rovers on Mars. Granted, its possible that something in this process will fail and we will still just have Opportunity.
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• Its pretty nerve-racking, said Ravi Prakash, a JPL entry, descent and landing engineer working on the Mars Science Laboratory project. We cant control anything, so its all on its own.
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• Please enable JavaScript to watch this video. On August 5, NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will touch down on the surface of the Red Planet. Or that's what we all hope, because it will be the craziest landing in the history of space exploration.
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