NASA's Mars rover parked to test robotic arm

Washington (AFP) Sept 6, 2012
NASA's Curiosity rover has temporarily halted its journey across the surface of Mars as it tests the tools on its robotic arm, the US space agency said Thursday. The $2.5 billion craft - which landed in Gale Crater on the Red Planet on August 6 - has covered more than a football field's distance since it began trundling eastward. That's about a quarter of the distance to the first majo

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