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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 May 9, 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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    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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    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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    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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  • the Mars Exploration Rover (rear) and the Sojourner rover Mars Science Laboratory (R); Mars Exploration Rover (L) and Sojourner rover (centre) Mars Exploration...
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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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    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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    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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    director for the NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission (Curiosity Mars rover) and was recognized in popular media for living on Mars time with his family...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Science Systems - Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) Instrument Description". Msss.com. Retrieved 2012-10-05. "MSL Science Corner:...
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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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    "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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    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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    Sky crane (landing system) (category Mars Science Laboratory)
    landing (EDL) sequence developed by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory for its two largest Mars rovers, Curiosity and Perseverance. While previous rovers...
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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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    (24 January 2014). "Mars' Surface Radiation Environment Measured with the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity Rover". Science. 343 (6169). Tables 1...
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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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    on remote maintenance. Mars Odyssey's THEMIS instrument was used to help select a landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL). Several days before...
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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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    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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    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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    in Transit to Mars on the Mars Science Laboratory" (PDF). Science. 340 (6136): 1080–1084. Bibcode:2013Sci...340.1080Z. doi:10.1126/science.1235989. PMID 23723233...
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