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Making a new milestone in mankind’s space odyssey, NASAs’ Curiosity
rover ended its eight-month 566-million-km journey to successfully land at Mars
on August 6, 2012 (11.02 a.m IST). The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory,
the most sophisticated roving lab ever to land on another planet, touched down
inside the Gale Crater on the surface of the red planet. After the touch-down,
it took Curiosity seven minutes to beam back its first image, a scene of rocky
ground, back to Earth.
The rover will look out for indications of whether the planet once
harboured life. It is NASAs’ first astrobiology mission after the VIKING probes
of 1970s. Curiosity was initially funded for a two-year period. However,
experts now expect that it will continue with its mission for a longer time
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