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  NASA: Curiosity lands on Mars

  Car-Size rover lands safely in Gale Crater beside 3-mile-tall Martian mountain.
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  NASA: Curiosity course maneuver successful – Mars Science Laboratory begins its final approach

  Mars rover Curiosity is scheduled to land at 1:61 a.m. EDT August 6.
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  NASA: Mars marathon for rover Opportunity

  More than 8 years after landing on Mars, rover Opportunity is still running. Mission planners say the robot is nearing completion of a full marathon, the first ever long-distance race on an alien planet.
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  NASA: Curiosity nears daring landing on Mars

  Curiosity is scheduled to land at approximately 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6).
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  Advanced telescope imaging system searches for other suns and orbiting planets

  Telescope spots a star 1.5 times larger than our Sun.
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  SPACE: Mars rover Curiosity closing in on landing site

  Smaller site poses both the potential for faster research, but also an increased landing hazard.