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<blockquote data-quote="Topper" data-source="post: 807665" data-attributes="member: 186250"><p><span style="color: #7D7D7D"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">By </span></span><span style="color: #7D7D7D"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Kerry Sheridan</span></span><span style="color: #7D7D7D"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> | </span></span><span style="color: #7D7D7D"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">AFP</span></span><span style="color: #7D7D7D"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"> – </span></span>Fri, Aug 3, 2012<span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">NASA said all was well ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth's nearest planetary neighbour.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'"></span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">On a two-year journey to seek out signs of environments that once sustained life, the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory and the largest and most sophisticated rover ever built, Curiosity, is set for 1:31 am August 6 (0531 GMT).</span></span><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">"The mission is going extremely well," said Pete Theisinger, director of the Engineering and Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">"Everything is really on track... so we are really good to go three days out."</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">If all continues to go well, the unmanned rover will touch down in Gale Crater, one of the lowest points on Mars, where scientists believe the waters of ancient rivers flowing downhill once pooled.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #000000"><span style="font-family: 'Georgia'">Full story with video</span></span></p><p>-http://uk.news.yahoo.com/cool-geology-ahead-us-mars-mission-181055461.html</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Topper, post: 807665, member: 186250"] [COLOR=#7D7D7D][FONT=Georgia]By [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#7D7D7D][FONT=Georgia]Kerry Sheridan[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#7D7D7D][FONT=Georgia] | [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#7D7D7D][FONT=Georgia]AFP[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#7D7D7D][FONT=Georgia] – [/FONT][/COLOR]Fri, Aug 3, 2012[COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia] NASA said all was well ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth's nearest planetary neighbour. [/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia]On a two-year journey to seek out signs of environments that once sustained life, the landing of the Mars Science Laboratory and the largest and most sophisticated rover ever built, Curiosity, is set for 1:31 am August 6 (0531 GMT).[/FONT][/COLOR][COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia]"The mission is going extremely well," said Pete Theisinger, director of the Engineering and Science Directorate at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia]"Everything is really on track... so we are really good to go three days out."[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#000000][FONT=Georgia]If all continues to go well, the unmanned rover will touch down in Gale Crater, one of the lowest points on Mars, where scientists believe the waters of ancient rivers flowing downhill once pooled. Full story with video[/FONT][/COLOR] -http://uk.news.yahoo.com/cool-geology-ahead-us-mars-mission-181055461.html [/QUOTE]
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