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This artist opinion depicts the interplay of NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft with the upper atmosphere of Mars in some unspecified time in the future of the entry, descent and touchdown of the Curiosity rover onto the Martian floor. 2011-10-03T18:00:06Z

That is an artist idea of NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft real by its cruise segment between commence and closing ability to Mars. The spacecraft involves a disc-fashioned cruise stage on the left linked to the aeroshell. 2011-10-03T18:00:02Z

NASA Mars Science Laboratory, a mobile robotic for investigating Mars past or contemporary capacity to retain microbial lifestyles, is in style for a launch alternative in 2011 beforehand 2009. 2007-02-21T23:10:43Z

This image taken in August 2008 in a clear room at NASA JPL, Pasadena, Calif., displays NASA next Mars rover, the Mars Science Laboratory, staunch by device of its meeting, earlier than additions of its arm, mast, laboratory instruments and loads of tools. 2008-11-19T16:21:01Z

This artist conception of NASA Mars Science Laboratory portrays exercise of the rover ChemCam instrument to call the chemical composition of a rock sample on the ground of Mars. 2007-02-23T15:49:48Z

This image from August 2008 reveals NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover in the route of its assembly, sooner than additions of its arm, mast, laboratory instruments and other instruments. 2008-11-19T16:21:01Z

This portion of NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, called the cruise stage, will invent its work for the length of the flight between Earth and Mars after open within the autumn of 2011. 2008-11-19T16:21:01Z

This picture from early October 2008 shows personnel engaged on the descent stage of NASA Mars Science Laboratory contained within the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. 2008-11-19T16:21:00Z

Within the Vertical Integration Facility at Space Launch Advanced 41, the payload fairing containing NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft used to be associated to its Atlas V rocket on Nov. 3, 2011. 2011-11-10T18:00:12Z

This stereo describe of NASA Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rovert used to be taken Can even 26, 2011, in Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. 3D glasses are mandatory to glimpse this describe. 2011-07-22T14:00:18Z

This artist plan is of NASA Mars Science Laboratory MSL Curiosity rover parachute system; the greatest parachute ever built to wing on a planetary mission. The parachute is linked to the terminate of the backshell portion of the spacecraft aeroshell. 2011-10-03T18:00:07Z

Testing of the cruise stage for NASA Mars Science Laboratory in August 2010 incorporated a session in a facility that simulates the atmosphere came right through in interplanetary space. Spacecraft technicians at JPL put together a space-simulation test. 2010-09-02T18:21:35Z

Technicians at Lockheed Martin Discipline Methods, Denver, put together the heat protect for NASA Mars Science Laboratory. With a diameter of 4.5 meters merely about 15 feet, this heat protect is the largest ever constructed for a planetary mission. 2011-05-13T18:28:53Z

The parachute for NASA Mars Science Laboratory handed flight-qualification testing in March and April 2009 contained in the sector ultimate wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Compare Center, Moffett Self-discipline, Calif. 2009-04-14T11:17:23Z

This image exhibits NASA Mars Science Laboratory heat shield, and a spacecraft employee at Lockheed Martin Location Programs, Denver. It is the highest-notch heat shield ever built for descending thru the atmosphere of any planet. 2009-07-10T15:33:13Z

The valuable factors of NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft — cruise stage atop the aeroshell, which has the descent stage and rover inner — had been related collectively in October 2008 for loads of weeks of system checking out. 2008-11-19T16:21:01Z

On this February 17, 2009, image, NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover is attached to the spacecraft descent stage. The image became taken all the plan in which by plan of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA JPL, Pasadena, Calif. 2008-11-19T16:21:01Z

At the Payload Perilous Servicing Facility at NASA Kennedy Home Center in Florida, the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, and the spacecraft descent stage dangle been enclosed contained within the spacecraft aeroshell. 2011-10-05T18:30:04Z

Preparations are under formulation to enclose NASA Mars Science Laboratory in an Atlas V rocket payload fairing. The fairing protects the spacecraft from the impact of aerodynamic pressure and heating all over ascent. 2011-11-10T18:00:10Z

Sundown on Mars catches NASA Mars Science Laboratory within the foreground on this artist belief. The mission is underneath pattern for inaugurate in 2009 and a precision landing on Mars in 2010. 2003-12-01T22:56:11Z

This artist belief reveals thrusters firing throughout the entry, descent and landing share for NASA Mars Science Laboratory mission to Mars. 2011-10-03T18:00:05Z