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Originally Posted by Lamplighter
Tonight is the night when, just out of curiosity, NASA gambles $2.5 billion
on a Look-Mom-No-Hands, one-time only, multi-stage descent to Mars.
CNET
by Dara Kerr
August 3, 2012
How NASA tests an against-all-odds Mars rover landing |
Now you can see where Curiosity has been for the past year...
Discovery.com
Ian O'Neill
Jul 24, 2013
Curiosity's Roving Progress Spied from Mars Orbit
On June 27, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) crossed the skies
over Gale Crater and used its High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE)
camera to capture a stunning bird's eye view of its wheeled robotic cousin.
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity appears as a bluish dot
near the lower right corner of this enhanced-color view from the
High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera
on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.