NASA's Next Mars Rover to Land at Huge Gale Crater

Friday, July 22, 2011 - 16:30 in Astronomy & Space

WASHINGTON -- It's official: NASA's next Mars rover has a landing site, and it's a giant crater called Gale.NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is slated to launch in late November, and will drop a car-size rover named Curiosity at the Gale crater. [More]

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