Images Dated 12th January 2012

Curiosity rover, artwork

NASA's next Mars rover, the Curiosity Rover, will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale Crater. Launch is palneed for November/ December 2011. After performing the first ever precise landing in August 2012, the MCR will help access Mars hability, that is, whether Mars is or was an environment able to support microbial life

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View from Zugspitze Mountain over Jubilaeumsgrat Ridge with the Hoellentalspitzen Mountains and Hochblassen Mountain, Wetterstein Mountains, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

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The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex

January 11, 2012 - The Goldstone Deep Space Communications Complex, located in the Mojave Desert in California, is one of three complexes that comprise NASA's Deep Space Network (DSN). The DSN provides radio communications for all of NASA's interplanetary spacecraft and is also utilized for radio astronomy and radar observations of the solar system and the universe

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