Image: Mars 'Curiosity' Rover, Spacecraft Assembly Facility, Pasadena, California (2011)

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Description: The image was taken May 26, 2011, in Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The rover was shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on June 22, 2011. The mission is scheduled to launch during the period Nov. 25 to Dec. 18, 2011, and land the rover Curiosity on Mars in August 2012. Researchers will use tools on Curiosity to study whether the landing region has had environmental conditions favorable for supporting microbial life and for preserving clues about whether life existed.
Title: Mars 'Curiosity' Rover, Spacecraft Assembly Facility, Pasadena, California (2011)
Credit: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA14309
Author: NASA
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