Curiosity Rover Launches for Mars


NASA/Jet Propulsion Lab:

NASA Launches Most Capable and Robust Rover to Mars

November 26, 2011

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA began a historic voyage to Mars with the Nov. 26 launch of the Mars Science Laboratory, which carries a car-sized rover named Curiosity. Liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station aboard an Atlas V rocket occurred at 10:02 a.m. EST (7:02 a.m. PST).


MORE: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2011-362&cid=release_2011-362

Space.com:

Next Stop Mars! Huge NASA Rover Launches Toward Red Planet

by Mike Wall, SPACE.com Senior Writer

Date: 26 November 2011 Time: 10:03 AM ET

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity blasts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Nov. 26, 2011. CREDIT: NASA TV View full size image

This story was updated at 10:30 a.m. EST.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA has launched its next Mars rover, kicking off a long-awaited mission to investigate whether the Red Planet could ever have hosted microbial life.


MORE: http://www.space.com/13738-nasa-mars-rover-curiosity-msl-launch.html









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