April 1, 2012
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter As of today, NASA’s car sized Curiosity rover has reached the halfway point in her 352 million mile (567 million km) journey to Mars – No fooling on April 1, 2012. It’s T Minus 126 days until Curiosity smashes into the [...]
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February 27, 2012
NASA’s huge Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover is carrying a vintage Lincoln penny along for the long interplanetary journey to Mars – and it’s not to open the first Martian savings account. Scientists will use the century old Lincoln penny – minted back in 1909 – as a modern age calibration target for one [...]
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