Curiosity Gives Engineers Another Exploration Tool

Credit: NASA
By the end of August, the nuclear-powered rover Curiosity will take its first, tentative steps on the surface of Mars, rolling a meter or two forward on its six aluminum wheels across the flat floor of Gale Crater. By then, controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory here probably will have...

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