NASA's Mars rover two weeks from landing

Washington (AFP) July 16, 2012
NASA's Curiosity rover is on target to arrive on Mars on August 6 for a two-year mission to find out whether microbial life once existed on the Red Planet, the US space agency said Monday. Landing the car-sized rover is of course no easy task, NASA scientists say. "The Curiosity landing is the hardest NASA mission ever attempted in the history of robotic planetary exploration," said the

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