BBC News - Nasa's Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars
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^ The rover on mars
Congratz NASA
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The US space agency has just landed a huge new robot rover on Mars.
The one-tonne vehicle, known as Curiosity, was reported to have landed in a deep crater near the planet's equator at 06:32 BST (05:32 GMT).
It will now embark on a mission of at least two years to look for evidence that Mars may once have supported life.
-This is the fourth rover Nasa has put on Mars, but its scale and sophistication dwarf all previous projects.
-study rocks that were laid down billions of years ago in the presence of liquid water.
The one-tonne vehicle, known as Curiosity, was reported to have landed in a deep crater near the planet's equator at 06:32 BST (05:32 GMT).
It will now embark on a mission of at least two years to look for evidence that Mars may once have supported life.
-This is the fourth rover Nasa has put on Mars, but its scale and sophistication dwarf all previous projects.
-study rocks that were laid down billions of years ago in the presence of liquid water.
^ The rover on mars
Congratz NASA
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