CURIOSITY - The most powerful Rover

• NASA has launched CURIOSITY, the most powerful and advanced robotic rover built to explore Mars. 
• The small car sized rover is equipped with a robotic arm, a drill, two colour video cameras and a tool kit for analyzing the rock contents.
•  "You can operate with solar panels on Mars. You just can't operate everywhere," Stephen Johnson, director of INL's Space Nuclear Systems and Technology Division, said in a statement. 
• This gives you an opportunity to go anywhere you want on the planet, not be limited to the areas that have sunlight and not have to put the rover to sleep at night. 
• The Mars is 56 million km away from the earth.
• Curiosity, which was launched on November 26th, is expected to land on the surface of Mars on August 5, 2012.   

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