CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (The Blaze/AP) — The world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer, NASA’s Curiosity rover, rocketed toward Mars on Saturday on a search for evidence that the red planet might once have been home to itsy-bitsy life.
It will take 8 1/2 months for Curiosity to reach Mars following a journey of 354 million miles.
An unmanned Atlas V rocket hoisted the rover, officially known as Mars Science Laboratory, into a cloudy late morning sky. A Mars frenzy gripped the launch site, with more than 13,000 guests jamming the space center for NASA‘s first launch to Earth’s next-door neighbor in four years, and the first send-off of a Martian rover in eight years.
Saturday, November 26, 2011
Raw Video: NASA Launches Super-size Mars Rover
The world's biggest extraterrestrial explorer is on its way to Mars.
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