NASA Lands
Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain
PASADENA,
Calif. -- NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red
Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down
onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.
The Mars
Science Laboratory (MSL) spacecraft that carried Curiosity succeeded in every
step of the most complex landing ever attempted on Mars, including the final
severing of the bridle cords and flyaway maneuver of the rocket backpack.
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