PopSci Video: NASA Engineers Land the Mars Rover Curiosity

We visit the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to find out how to get to Mars

By Mike Senese
August 8, 2012

PopSci went to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and spoke to NASA directors, to discover firsthand just how one sends a rover to another planet.

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