NASA launches super-size rover to Mars: 'Go, Go!'
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Karl
  Posted: Nov 26 2011, 05:20 PM


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NASA launches super-size rover to Mars: 'Go, Go!' (AP)

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NASA's six-wheeled, one-armed wonder, Curiosity, will reach Mars next summer and use its jackhammer drill, rock-zapping laser machine and other devices to search for evidence that Earth's next-door neighbor might once have been home to the teeniest forms of life.

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The 1-ton Curiosity — 10 feet tall, 9 feet wide and 7 feet tall at its mast — is a mobile, nuclear-powered laboratory holding 10 science instruments that will sample Martian soil and rocks, and with unprecedented skill, analyze them right on the spot.

It's as big as a car. But NASA's Mars exploration program director calls it "the monster truck of Mars."

"It's an enormous mission. It's equivalent of three missions, frankly, and quite an undertaking," said the ecstatic program director, Doug McCuistion. "Science fiction is now science fact. We're flying to Mars. We'll get it on the ground and see what we find."


Hell yeah! It's about time NASA stopped messing around and started kicking the universe's ass again.

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