Mars Landing Site Chosen for Next Rover
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 - 19:30
in Astronomy & Space
NASA has picked the final landing site for its next Red Planet rover after years of debate and will unveil its choice on Friday (July 22) -- nearly 35 years to the day after the space agency's storied Viking 1 probe touched down on Mars, agency officials said.The landing site will be the stomping grounds for NASA's latest Martian explorer, a car-size rover called Curiosity . Curiosity is the centerpiece of the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, which is slated to launch in late November. [More]