The rover, officially known as the Mars Science Laboratory, was hoisted into a cloudy sky on Saturday morning by an Atlas V rocket.
The one-ton Curiosity is a mobile, nuclear-powered laboratory holding 10 scientific instruments that will sample Martian soil and rocks, analyzing them on the spot. It also has a drill and a stone-zapping laser machine.
It is “really a rover on steroids,” said Colleen Hartman, assistant associate administrator for science at NASA.
That thing looks awesome. I’d love to see the Discovery documentary on this one.
if there are microbs on Mars, now they may become radioactive super microbs 