A rover called Curiosity has a date with Mars
On Aug. 5, 154 million miles from home, the fate of the most ambitious machine humans have sent to another planet will rest on a seven-minute landing sequence so far-fetched it looks like something Wile E. Coyote devised to catch the Road Runner.
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A rover replica( Patrick T. Fallon / Los Angeles Times / June 22, 2012 )
Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge gather around a replica of the Mars rover Curiosity. After a journey of nearly nine months, the six-wheel laboratory is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet at 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5.
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