The scientists and engineers of NASA's Curiosity rover mission have selected the first driving destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory. The target area, named Glenelg, is a natural intersection of three kinds of terrain. The choice was described...
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Mars rover Curiosity has a destination for its first road trip, but NASA officials said it could take a slight detour. The destination is called Glenelg, about 1,300 feet east-southeast of the landing site. Glenelg sits at a point w... Read Post
The image above shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. The larger ellipse was the target area prior to early June 2012, when the project revised it to the smaller... Read Post
The scientists and engineers of NASA's Curiosity rover mission have selected the first driving destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory. The target area, named Glenelg, is a natural intersection of three kin... Read Post