Science and Exploration

Video: How the Curiosity Mars Rover Will Land and Navigate

By Keith Cowing
May 24, 2013
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Steven Lee, the guidance, navigation, and control manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., describes how NASA plans to land and navigate its new Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars in 2012.

Steven Lee, the guidance, navigation, and control manager for the Mars Science Laboratory mission at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, Calif., describes how NASA plans to land and navigate its new Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars in 2012.

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