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Explanation:
Next stop: Mars.
This past weekend the
Mars Science Laboratory carrying
the Curiosity Rover
blasted off
for the red planet atop an
Atlas V rocket from
Cape Canaveral,
Florida,
USA, as
pictured above.
At five times the size of the Opportunity rover
currently operating on Mars,
Curiosity is like a
strange little car with six small wheels, a head-like camera mast, a rock crusher,
a long robotic arm, and a plutonium power source.
Curiosity is scheduled to
land on Mars next August and start a two year mission to explore
Gale crater, to help
determine whether Mars could ever have
supported life, and to help determine how
humans might one day visit
Earth's planetary neighbor.
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