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DescriptionMSL Artist Concept (PIA14164 crop).jpg	English: Mars Rover Curiosity in Artist's Concept, Tall - This artist concept features NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, a mobile robot for investigating Mars' past or present ability to sustain microbial life. Curiosity launched in the fall of 2011 and landed successfully near Gale Crater in Aug of 2012. In this image, the mast, or rover's "head," rises to about 2.1 meters (6.9 feet) above ground level, about as tall as a basketball player. This mast supports two remote-sensing instruments: the Mast Camera, or "eyes," for stereo color viewing of surrounding terrain and material collected by the arm; and, the ChemCam instrument, which is a laser that vaporizes material from rocks up to about 9 meters (30 feet) away and determines what elements the rocks are made of.
Date	24 June 2011
Source	http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/multimedia/images/?imageid=3511 (image link)
Author	NASA/JPL-Caltech

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