Saturday 18 May, 2013
NASA’S CURIOSITY rover successfully touched down on the surface of Mars early yesterday morning.
The craft launched from Earth on 26 November 2011 and is scheduled to spend 23 months on the Red Planet.
Within hours of landing, the one-tonne car-sized rover began sending images of its Martian surroundings back to Earth:
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Those pictures remind me of my holiday in Lanzarote when the Sahara sand blew over the island. Are they sure they got the right planet?
Nasa has announced plans that next year they will land a probe in a harsh, barren land unexplored by Human civilisation.
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