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| This August 26, 2003 image by NASA shows Mars photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope. NASA’s new robotic rover, named Curiosity, landed on Mars on August 5, 2012. AP |
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| An artist’s concept of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft approaching Mars. This illustration depicts a scene after the spacecraft’s cruise stage has been jettisoned. REUTERS |
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| This artist’s concept shows the sky crane manoeuvre during the descent of NASA’s Curiosity rover to the Martian surface. REUTERS |
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| This artist’s concept depicts the moment that NASA’s Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface. REUTERS |
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| Mission Mars |
| The target landing area for NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission is the ellipse marked on this image of Gale Crater on Mars. REUTERS |
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| This artist’s concept depicts the rover Curiosity, as it uses its Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument to investigate the composition of a rock surface. REUTERS |
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| This artist’s concept features Curiosity rover. REUTERS |
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| Mission Mars |
| A general view shows a 70m dish (L) and 34m dish (R) that are tracking NASA’s Mars science laboratory car-sized rover Curiosity at the Canberra Deep Space Communication Station in Australia. AFP |
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| MSL Flight director Keith Comeaux (R) celebrates with Martin Greco after the successful landing. NASA’s $2.5 billion Mars rover made a dramatic touchdown on the Red Planet, marking a successful end to the most sophisticated Mars attempt in history. AFP |
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| In this image from NASA TV, shot off a video screen, one of the first images from the Curiosity rover is pictured of its wheel after it successfully landed on Mars. REUTERS |
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| This image taken by NASA’s Curiosity shows what lies ahead for the rover, its main science target, informally called Mount Sharp. The rover’s shadow can be seen in the foreground, and the dark bands beyond are dunes. AP |
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| An image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance orbiter, capturing the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16m) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater on August 5, 2012. REUTERS |
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| Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Flight System Manager Matt Wallace (C) and MSL Lead Flight Director David Oh (2nd R) celebrate a successful landing. AFP |
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| A spectator watches a live stream of the Mars Curiosity landing while listening to an audio broadcast on her phone among the hundreds of other on-lookers in Times Square, August 6, 2012, in New York. AP |
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| Kelley Clarke (L) celebrates as the first pictures appear on screen after a successful landing. AFP |
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| Mission Mars |
| People celebrate while watching a live broadcast of the NASA Mission Control center, as the planetary rover "Curiosity" lands on Mars, in Time Square, in New York, August 6, 2012. REUTERS |
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| Mission Mars |
| Jasper Goldberg (L), 22, and Andreas Bastian (R), 22, watch a live broadcast of Curiosity rover landing on Mars, in Time Square, in New York, August 6, 2012. REUTERS |
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| Onlookers post to Facebook as they watch NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover land on Mars during a special viewing event at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center Monday. AP |
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