NASA Rover Headed for Mars Takes Aim at August Landing Site Today

SPACE.com Staff

Date: 10 January 2012 Time: 07:00 AM ET

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An artist's concept showing NASA's Curiosity Mars rover streaking through space. Curiosity launched on Nov. 26, 2011 and is slated to land on the Red Planet in August 2012. CREDIT: NASA/JPL-Caltech View full size image

A NASA rover on its way to Mars will make the biggest maneuver of its nearly nine-month journey through deep space today  (Jan. 11).
The spacecraft carrying the 1-ton Curiosity rover, which launched toward the Red Planet on Nov. 26, will perform a three-hour series of engine burns beginning at 6:00 p.m. EST (2300 GMT) Wednesday. The maneuver will redirect the rover more precisely toward its landing site at Mars' Gale Crater, researchers said.

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