Nasa is all set to launch the world’s biggest extraterrestrial explorer. A six-wheeled, one-armed Mars rover is due to blast off from Cape Canaveral.
The unmanned Atlas V rocket will put the spacecraft on an eight-month trek to the red planet.
The rover, nicknamed Curiosity, is the size of a car.
It is a mobile laboratory holding 10 science instruments that will sample Martian soil and rocks, and analyse them right there on the surface. There is a drill as well as a stone-zapping laser machine.
Curiosity will spend two years looking for evidence that Mars may once have been – or still is – suitable for microbial life.
Source : Orange News