Curiosity at Mars

Sep 03, 2012 on BBC FOUR at 10:00 PM

Summary

The NASA rover, Curiosity, the size of a small car and nuclear-powered, landed on Mars in August and took its first view of the red planet. This ambitious mission hopes to find the building blocks of life as well as study the Martian climate and geol... (more)ogy. Sir Patrick Moore discusses what Curiosity will be doing, as well as what to see in the September night sky.

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