The Curiosity Rover: pictures from Mars

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<strong><a href="http://www.concordy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mars-picture-1.png" target="_top">Curiosity parachuting down to Mars, where it landed only 1.5 miles away from its target, much closer than any previous Mars landing. </a></strong> <strong><a href="http://www.concordy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Mars-picture-2.png" target="_top">The Curiosity Rover still on Earth during final desert testing before its launch on November 26, 2011. (Photo courtesy of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration)</a></strong> <strong><a href="http://www.concordy.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/mars-picture-3.png" target="_top">Curiosity reaching to a rock named “Jake.” The rock is named after Jacob Matijevic, chief engineer of the Mars Science Laboratory Project and the Curiosity rover, he passed away two weeks after Curiosity’s landing.</a></strong>

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Joshua Ostrer

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Josh is a Junior and a philosophy major from Princeton, New Jersey

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