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Mars rover Curiosity nears make-or-break landing attempt PASADENA, California (Reuters) - The Mars rover Curiosity, on a quest for signs the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life, streaked into the home stretch of its eight-month voyage on Sunday nearing a make-or-break landing attempt that NASA calls one of the toughest feats of robotic spaceflight. Curiosity, the first full-fledged mobile science laboratory sent to a distant world, was ... Mars Rover Landing: All Go ... for Now The Mars Curiosity rover, sent by NASA on an eight-month trip to look for the building blocks of life on the red planet, was set for landing at 1:31 a.m. EDT Monday. All systems were go -- so far. NASA counts down to dramatic Mars landing With a mixture of tense nerves and confidence, NASA counted down to the landing of its largest ever robotic rover on Mars, where it will search for signs that life may once have existed. Mars rover Curiosity clears hurdle as landing approaches Mars Curiosity landing: With the scheduled landing of the Mars rover Curiosity only hours away, officials said one potential problem facing the mission appears to have gone away. NASA's 'Curiosity' Rover Landing on Mars Tonight Provided NASA's 'Curiosity' Mars rover can survive an extremely difficult landing process, the biggest machine we've ever sent to Mars will spend the next two years trying to prove that life once existed on the red planet.  NASA on Edge for Mars Rover Landing's 'Seven Minutes of Terror' PASADENA, Calif. — NASA's next Mars rover is just hours away from its harrowing Red Planet touchdown, an unprecedented landing attempt that is leaving some of its handlers "emotionally terrified." Mars Rover Landing: How to Watch Live A NASA rover is only three days away from landing on Mars, and you can follow along with the adventure on the Red Planet thanks to a lineup of exciting public events. Mars rover Curiosity on target for "eye of the needle" landing PASADENA, California (Reuters) - The Mars rover Curiosity, the most sophisticated mobile science lab ever sent to another world, hurtled closer to the Red Planet on Saturday, on track "to fly through the eye of the needle" for a precise, safe landing on Sunday night, NASA officials said. Mission control engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles acknowledge that delivering the ... NASA Spacecraft Speeding Toward Epic Mars Landing NASA's souped-up Mars spacecraft zooms toward the red planet for what it hopes will be an epic touchdown Mars Revealed: A Stunning Look at the Red Planet PHOTOS: Meet Rover 'Curiosity' Shatner Helps NASA Rover to Boldly Go to Mars LIVE COVERAGE of 'Curiosity' Landing begins Monday at 1:30 a.m. ET on Fox News and FoxNews.com Pass the Peanuts: It's Landing Day for NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity PASADENA, Calif. — On NASA's long checklist leading up to the landing tonight (Aug. 5) of its Curiosity rover on Mars, most of what is remaining to do is handled completely by the spacecraft's on board computers.
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