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By rss@youtube.com (marketingfinger) NASA is working on a 2009 Mars mission to set down a sophisticated, large, mobile laboratory using a precision landing that will make many of Mars' most intriguing regions viable destinations for the first time. Once on the ground, the Mars Science Laboratory would analyze dozens of samp...

 Canada The Mars Science Laboratory o Inspect this full-scale model of the next Mars Rover, named “Curiosity”, which replicates in every detail the SUV-sized Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) due to blast off in October 2011. - A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Machine ...

 DC Clara Ma, 12, of Lenexa, Kans., submitted an essay that won a national contest for naming the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. The rover has been named Curiosity, as this sixth-grader from Sunflower Elementary School proposed in the ...

It takes a lot of drilling to prepare to use a drill 100 million miles away, beyond the reach of humans. The Mars Science Laboratory rover is ... marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov

The Moscow Times  IL The pending retirement of the current space shuttle fleet is on the horizon, so each NASA mission to space remains extremely important. The US space agency finally named the Mars Science Laboratory, its next Mars rover, with help from sixth-grader ...

The Moscow Times The US space agency finally named the Mars Science Laboratory, its next Mars rover, with help from sixth-grader Clara Ma. The new rover -- scheduled to ... This Week In Space: The Late Great Planet EarthDaily Kos all 35 news articles »

There are four possible landing sites for the next Mars rover. Scientists and engineers will evaluate all four sites for the future rover, which ... fr.truveo.com

Don't burn the locals A 12-year-old girl from Kansas has chosen the name of NASA's nuclear-powered Mars Science Laboratory rover.… Video - Business Intelligence for mid-sized businesses

 UK First there was Sojourner, then there were Spirit and Opportunity, and in a few years there will be . . . Curiosity. That's the official name given to NASA's next Mars rover, formerly called the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL. ...

 KS WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Kansas sixth-grade student has won a contest to name NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover. Clara Ma, a 12-year-old from the Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa, submitted the winning name, "Curiosity. ...

NASA's next rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, finally has its new name: Curiosity. The name comes courtesy of Clara Ma, a 12-year-old sixth-grade student at Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa, Kan.

From space, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is scouting out landing sites for NASA’s next Mars rover.

From space, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes a closer look at four possible landing sites for NASA's next Mars rover.

 MN AP This artist's rendering released by NASA shows the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory on the surface of Mars. The rovers have performed admirably and made the investment in this exploration worth the cost. However, all such projects reach a point … read ...

By SPACE.com staff The parachute for NASA's massive Mars Science Laboratory has been cleared for flight after it was put to the test in the world's largest wind tunnel. The giant parachute is the largest ever built to fly on an extraterrestrial flight ...

 MI The next Mars rover will dwarf Spirit and Opportunity — missions that were, incidentally, designed to last three months and are still going strong after more than five years! The Mars Science Laboratory, now scheduled for launch in the fall of 2011, ...

Cool stuff | NASA is looking for a name for the next Mars rover, officially called the Mars Science Laboratory. They've decided to have a contest, and it's open to school ch.

By rektide My one concern was that it seemed like there was an awfully large amount of machinery that was simply thrown away to get a lander down. The mass fraction seemed rather low. Knowing this is a 1ton rover though it makes more sense; ...

By Jesus Diaz When I read that the UFO-looking Mars Science Laboratory's aeroshell would use a floating crane—called Sky Crane by NASA—to softly land the rover on Mars, I couldn't believe it. Now, watching this hyperrealistic NASA simulation showing ...

By Nancy Atkinson The Mars Science Laboratory, a souped-up Mars rover scheduled to launch next year might be delayed, scaled down or canceled due to technical problems and cost overruns. The nuclear powered rover designed to search for microbial life on the Red Planet, has already cost $1.5 billion and if i...