Live Video: Watch NASA's Newest Mars Rover Being Built, Piece by Piece
Curiosity Being Built The view isn't quite this good -- as evidenced by the webcam's location -- but still, it's not every day you get to watch spacecraft being born. NASA Okay, so it's not as warm and fuzzy as the Smithsonian National Zoo's lion cub cam. But NASA's new webcam is pretty neat - you can watch a spacecraft being born. NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, or Curiosity to its friends, is taking shape inside a clean room at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. NASA engineers want the public to see their handiwork as they assemble the most ambitious interplanetary explorer ever designed. Watch it here on Ustream. We already watched as Curiosity took its first baby steps this summer; now you can follow along live as it is put together, piece by piece. Last week, NASA set up a webcam, albeit without audio, from a viewing gallery above the clean room floor. Viewers...