The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft delivered Curiosity to its target area on Mars at 10:31:45 p.m.
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The Mars Science Laboratory is a precursor mission to sharper technology that could do life detection, Grotzinger said.
The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on November 26, 2011.
On Sunday, the Mars Science Laboratory executed a series of maneuvers designed to slow its approach to the Mars surface.
This software for Mars surface operations was uploaded to the rover's memory during the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft's flight from Earth.
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Nasa will send a robotic rover, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), to the planet in September 2009 to look for signs of past or present life.
The latter is using the web service to capture and store images and metadata collected from the Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Science Laboratory missions.
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And I just wanted to call and say congratulations to the entire Mars Science Laboratory team, and really all of JPL, on last Monday's incredible success.
The post went on to outline the efforts that are underway that may add evidence to the debate, namely the space missions Kepler and the Mars Science Laboratory.
The rover is likely to be a copy - in terms of size - of Nasa's Curiosity-Mars Science Laboratory rover, which is due to launch in November.
With NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, we're all Lewises and Clarks.
The overall goal of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is to use 10 instruments on Curiosity to assess whether areas inside Gale Crater ever offered a habitable environment for microbes.
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The centerpiece of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, the Curiosity rover comes packed with a slew of instruments to study not only today's Martian surface, but also the surface of the past.
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But even if Curiosity finds them, that's not proof that life existed -- after all, these molecules are found in bus exhaust and meteorites, too, says Steve Squyres, part of the Mars Science Laboratory science team.
The phenomenon of sedimentary layers is remarkably similar to what is seen on Earth, in California's Death Valley or in Montana's Glacier National Park, says John Grotzinger, chief scientist of the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
Kepler is searching for Earth-like planets around far-flung stars, and the Mars Science Laboratory will sample the Red Planet's geology looking for the building blocks of life - though it will not explicitly look for life itself.
And in case you missed the latest robotic resident arriving on Mars you can watch the action replay and view the very first pictures beamed back from the surface of the Red Planet on Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory mission homepage.
The sample comes from a hole about 2.5 inches deep drilled on Feb. 8 in a flat plate of sedimentary bedrock that the space agency managers have named "John Klein" in memory of a Mars Science Laboratory deputy project manager who died in 2011.
The mission of the mobile science laboratory is to determine whether Mars ever had an environment capable of supporting life.
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