The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a rover that will assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life. In other words, its mission is to determine the planet’s “habitability.” Scheduled to launch in November or December of this year, the Curiosity rover should land on Mars in [...]
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Nasa scientists have given more details about their Mars mission which is searching for life beyond Earth. The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), a wheeled rover nicknamed Curiosity, is due to arrive on the Red Planet on August 6.If it ... Read Post
Yesterday morning marked the one-year anniversary of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Tasked with the mission of finding out whether Mars has ever supported extraterrestrial life, the MSL mission has so far been an unpa... Read Post
NASA has launched its next Mars rover, capping a long-awaited mission to investigate whether the Red Planet could ever have hosted microbial life. The car-size Curiosity rover -the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL- blasted off atop i... Read Post