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Liftoff is targeted for 10:21 a.m. ET on November 25.

"It's pretty overwhelming,ASUS G53JW-3DE," Gruel said. "We all got to see the Juno launch just a couple days ago and realizing we are next up...is a pretty humbling experience for the team...We're all really confident we've exercised [the rover] to the best of our ability and what's next up for Curiosity is getting down to the surface of Mars and showing us what she's capable of doing."
A computer graphic showing the Curiosity rover on Mars.
Engineers now plan to carefully fold up the rover's robot arm,hp 2540P, camera mast, wheels, and suspension so it can be packed inside a protective aeroshell that, in turn,Panasonic AG HVX200A, will be attached to the bottom of a rocket-powered descent stage. The entire spacecraft then will be attached to its interplanetary cruise stage,HP EliteBook 8540W XT904UT, encapsulated in a nose cone fairing in late October and hauled out to launch complex 41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for attachment to a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket.
At an altitude of about 65 feet, a gravity-fed harness system will lower the MSL rover away from the sky crane, which will continue its descent until the rover's wheels touch down. Sensing the change in its load, the computer will send commands to release the harness and cables; the sky crane,Sony HDR-FX7, its job complete,Sony HDR-CX500V, will fly off to a crash landing a safe distance away.
Journalists get a final chance to inspect the Curiosity rover before it is packed up for launch in November.
The Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity at the Kennedy Space Center Friday during final checkout.
NASA gave journalists a final chance to view the MSL flight hardware today before the rover is packed up for launch.
The rover, meanwhile,Sony HDR-HC9, will be ready to begin two Earth years of exploration to look for carbon compounds and evidence of past or present habitability. The rover also will study the chemistry and composition of rocks and soil in the landing zone,Canon HG10, assess weather patterns,Canon XL H1, measure the radiation environment,Macbook Pro 17 Inch, and determine the long-term distribution of water and carbon dioxide.
Starting tomorrow, he said, "we're going to start stowing the vehicle for launch."
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla.--NASA's $2.4 billion Mars Science Laboratory has completed an exhaustive series of functional tests to verify the car-size rover's readiness for launch in November on an eight-and-a-half-month voyage to the Red Planet and a dramatic rocket-powered "sky crane" descent to the surface,Thinkpad w510, officials said today.
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Unlike past Mars missions,HP EliteBook 2740p XT935UT, the Curiosity rover will not set down atop a legged lander or bounce to the surface encased in protective airbags. Instead,Apple Macbook Pro MC847LL/A, it will be lowered to the ground and set on its wheels by a slowly descending rocket-powered "sky crane" designed to unreel the lander like a lure on a fishing line.
The Mars Science Laboratory rover,CANON EOS 5D MARK II 24-105MM LENS, dubbed Curiosity in a student-naming contest, is the most sophisticated unmanned spacecraft ever built to rove about the surface of another planet.
"We just wrapped up our last functional test of the vehicle,Sony HVR-Z5U Mini DV," said Dave Gruel,Sony HDR-CX700V, who is assembly,HP EliteBook 8740w XT910UT, test,Sony AX2000, and launch operations manager for the project. "Our functional test campaign included things like showing the vehicle can successfully go and do our entry,Sony HVR-V1U, descent, and landing phase,Sony HVR-HD1000U, get down to the surface and actually deploy the arm,Dell XPS 15-L502X, deploy the mast, take images, things of that nature."
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