An incredible voyage across the red planet will begin this when NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover --now nestled atop its Atlas 5 rocket--lands in a crater 96 miles wide and three miles deep that contains a geological record of the planet’s epic history and starts its quest to determine if Mars is, or ever was, capable of supporting microbial life.
The car-size Curiosity rover, the centerpiece of NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, is slated to blast off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Saturday (Nov. 26) after a one-day delay due to a rocket battery issue.
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