Artist’s rendering of the Curiosity rover being lowered to the Martian surface via the “sky crane” – a risky but exciting landing. Credit: NASA / JPL
There is now less than a week until the next Mars rover, Curiosity, lands on August 5 (10:31 pm PT). There is already a ton of information about it available on the web of course, but now there is a great new web site, GetCurious.com, dedicated specifically to the Curiosity mission. So if you are curious, take a look!
The official NASA web site is here.
Paul Scott Anderson is a freelance space writer with a life-long passion for space exploration and astronomy. He currently writes for AmericaSpace, Universe Today and Examiner.com. His own blog The Meridiani Journal is a chronicle of planetary exploration.
