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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 February 8, 2025, Curiosity has been on the...
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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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    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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    chapters and 15 patents. Melikechi is a member of the Mars Science Laboratory, NASA’s largest Mars exploration effort to date. Melikechi was born in 1958...
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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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 'Opportunity.' — Sofi Collis, age 9 The mission is known as the Mars Science Laboratory. The rover vehicle was named through an essay contest. Finalist...
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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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    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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    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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    sites and Mars rover traverses. MRO played a key role in choosing safe landing sites for the Phoenix lander in 2008, Mars Science Laboratory / Curiosity...
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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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    Multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (category Mars Science Laboratory)
    generator (RTG) developed for NASA space missions such as the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), under the jurisdiction of the United States Department of...
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    NASA Science". science.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2024-12-08. "Viking 1 - Mars Missions - NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory". NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)...
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    1980 1990 2000 2010 2020 Beagle 2 Curiosity Deep Space 2 InSight Mars 2 Mars 3 Mars 6 Mars Polar Lander ↓ Opportunity Perseverance Phoenix Rosalind Franklin...
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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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    Planetary Science (CAP+S)" (PDF). Nasa.gov. May 23, 2012. Retrieved February 23, 2016. Mars Exploration Program at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars Exploration...
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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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    that landed on the surface of Mars on May 25, 2008, and operated until November 2, 2008. Phoenix was operational on Mars for 157 sols (161 days). Its instruments...
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    and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory manages the mission. The mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The Science Definition Team proposed...
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    composition. Ames is also a partner on the Mars Science Laboratory and its Curiosity rover, a next generation Mars rover to explore for signs of organics...
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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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    Gale (crater) (category Mars Science Laboratory)
    shortly after the formation of the crater. The NASA Mars rover Curiosity, of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, landed in "Yellowknife" Quad 51 of...
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