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Mars Science Laboratory Lifts Off for Red Planet
http://youtu.be/jEXoMpmfJcM
NASA's Curiosity rover has begun the journey to Mars after its Atlas V rocket launched successfully from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Nov. 26. Ten instruments aboard MSL will provide new data about whether the area within and around Mars' Gale Crater could ever have supported microbial life. The Mars Science Laboratory is expected to reach Mars next August.
http://youtu.be/jEXoMpmfJcM
NASA's Curiosity rover has begun the journey to Mars after its Atlas V rocket launched successfully from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Nov. 26. Ten instruments aboard MSL will provide new data about whether the area within and around Mars' Gale Crater could ever have supported microbial life. The Mars Science Laboratory is expected to reach Mars next August.
NASA will launch its latest Mars rover, Curiosity, on Saturday.
It is the agency's most ambitious mission yet to discover if life ever existed on the red planet.
The Rover lands next August and will spend two years studying the planet.
Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman has more.