NASA counts down to Curiosity rover landing on Mars
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PASADENA, CA - AUGUST 5: In this handout image provided by NASA, the balcony of the control rooms at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is viewed with the Dark Room in the foreground, the Deep Space Network control room on the right and the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission Support Area in the back left, on August 5, 2012 in Pasadena, California. The MSL Rover named Curiosity was designed to assess whether Mars ever had an environment able to support small life forms called microbes. Curiosity is due to land on Mars at 10:31 p.m. PDT today (1:31 a.m. EDT on August 6, 2012). (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)
