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    Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is a robotic space probe mission to Mars launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, which successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars...
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    The Mars Science Laboratory and its rover, Curiosity, were launched from Earth on 26 November 2011. As of June 1, 2025, Curiosity has been in Gale Crater...
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    Curiosity is a car-sized Mars rover exploring Gale crater and Mount Sharp on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. Curiosity was...
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    active projects at the laboratory, some are the Mars 2020 mission, which includes the Perseverance rover; the Mars Science Laboratory mission, including the...
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    operate on Mars. Multiple rovers have been dispatched to Mars: Curiosity of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission by NASA, was launched November 26, 2011...
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    Allen Chen (category Mars Science Laboratory)
    Descent, and Landing (EDL) Operations Lead on the Mars Science Laboratory mission and the EDL Lead for the Mars 2020 mission. Chen is from Newtown, PA, and...
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    inactive "forever". On 26 November 2011, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission was successfully launched for Mars. The mission successfully landed the robotic...
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    servicing mission, Mars Exploration Rover extended mission operations, launch Mars Science Laboratory in 2009, and to prevent Earth science mission Glory from...
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    Mars Exploration Rovers (MER). He was the lead engineer of the Mars Science Laboratory's EDL phase (Entry, Descent and Landing), and helped design, build...
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    Field Laboratory (AFL) (also Mars Astrobiology Field Laboratory or MAFL) was a proposed NASA rover that would have conducted a search for life on Mars. This...
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    Bay is a geologic formation in Gale Crater on the planet Mars. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, named Curiosity, arrived at the low lying depression...
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    explore Mars via two rovers Mars Science Laboratory – Robotic mission that deployed the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 Mars 2020 – Astrobiology Mars rover...
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  • MSL Science Team (November 12, 2013). "Mars' Surface Radiation Environment Measured with the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity Rover" (PDF). Science. 343...
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    Peter Theisinger (category Mars Exploration Rover mission)
    Engineering and Science Directorate at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California and was the project manager of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover...
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    "Touchdown! Huge NASA Rover Lands on Mars". Space.com. Retrieved 14 December 2012. NASA Staff (2012). "Mars Science Laboratory – PARTICIPATE – Follow Your CURIOSITY"...
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    Aaron Yazzie (category Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
    Propulsion Laboratory. His work involves planetary sample acquisition and handling. He has worked on the Mars Science Laboratory, InSight, and Mars 2020 missions...
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    "Image: Mars Curiosity Looks Away from the Sun". SpaceRef - Your Space Reference. 2012-08-08. Retrieved 2012-08-09. "Mars Science Laboratory: Participate"...
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    in 2008. The Mars Science Laboratory mission was launched on November 26, 2011, and delivered the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on August 6,...
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    Bobak Ferdowsi (category Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
    flight engineer at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He served on the Cassini–Huygens and Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity missions. Ferdowsi gained brief...
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    the Mars Science Laboratory, launched in 2011, as he did not want to be away from his family again for a long period (as happened during the Mars Exploration...
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    Chemistry and Camera complex (category Mars Science Laboratory instruments)
    Mars Curiosity rover (ChemCam) Exploration of Mars Geology of Mars List of rocks on Mars Mars Science Laboratory Scientific information from the Mars...
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    use in precision alignment applications. NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers and the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity have engineered flexures in their...
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  • "ExoMars program gathers strength". The Voice of Russia. Archived from the original on 2012-08-06. Retrieved 2012-07-15. "Mars Science Laboratory: Mission"...
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    Rocker-bogie (category Mars Science Laboratory)
    robots Spirit and Opportunity, on the 2012 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission's rover Curiosity, the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance and ISRO's Chandrayaan-3...
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    Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) is one of seventeen cameras on the Curiosity rover on the Mars Science Laboratory mission. The instrument is mounted on...
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    for Mars Global Surveyor. They also developed the cameras that were carried on Mars Polar Lander, Mars Climate Orbiter, 2001 Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance...
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    Planetary Science (CAP+S)" (PDF). Nasa.gov. May 23, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2016. Mars Exploration Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars Exploration...
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    member of the Mars Science Laboratory, NASA’s largest Mars exploration effort to date. Melikechi is dean of the Kennedy College of Sciences and professor...
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    and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the mission. The mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The Science Definition Team proposed...
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    lander and the Mars Science Laboratory, but they were uncontactable and delayed respectively, freeing up the MRO to further study Mars.: 19–20 After 2010...
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