Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation

This 11-minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012. A shorter 4-minute version of this animation, with narration, is also available on our youtube page.

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[will atkinson]

Personally i think they should have included a little solarpanel and battery so the probe isnt useless when the RGTs run out (in a decade or two) but what the fuck do i know about rocket science

[Wubslin]

Well I've been playing KSP since 0.11 so I can safely bet those NASA noobs don't even lift.

[Jeremy16471]

read the top comment!

[Blaylock1988]

the visuals were great, but the sounds were silly and cartoonish.

[Zombifreak21]

Where does the flying object that landed the rover fly to?

[astropapi1]

Voyager 1 was launched on 1977 and is still alive.

It's powered by an RTG. :)

[will atkinson]

Window wipers? 

only a suggestion i know crap about carp and less about Mars

[WelcomeToTheJakeShow]

Without anyway to clean the dust off the solar panels of the previous rovers they proved to not be as fruitful

[Foisal Ahmed]

It's amazing that there's something of ours on it own with noting around it on a different planet

[Ev Sinclair]

Oh my god. Watch this while playing the song "Protectors of the Earth" by Two steps from hell. SO EPIC

[10mintwo]

We HAVE seen footage of mars, you fucking retard. It was taken 10 years ago with another rover. Maybe if you spent more time actually looking shit up on the internet instead of being such a mouth breathing inbred fuckwit, you'd know that already.

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