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This image from the right Mast Camera (Mastcam) of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows a scoop full of sand and dust lifted by the rover's first use of the scoop on its robotic arm. In the foreground, near the bottom of the image, a bright object is visible on the ground. NASA says it is likely a piece of plastic from the Curiosity rover. Oct. 8, 2012.

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is pictured in a handout self-portrait, Feb. 3, 2013.

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is pictured in a handout self-portrait, Feb. 3, 2013.

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An image taken through the wide-angle lens on one of the rover's Hazard-Avoidance cameras shows the terrain of Mars the rover now knows as home. These engineering cameras are located at the rover's base. These early images are lower resolution; larger color images are expected soon when the rover's mast, carrying high-resolution cameras, is deployed.

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An image taken through the wide-angle lens on one of the rover's Hazard-Avoidance cameras shows the terrain of Mars the rover now knows as home. These engineering cameras are located at the rover's base. These early images are lower resolution; larger color images are expected soon when the rover's mast, carrying high-resolution cameras, is deployed.

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A photo of the crater Endeavour's west rim from NASA's Mars rover Opportunity

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This artist's concept depicts the moment that NASA's Curiosity rover touches down onto the Martian surface

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A shadow is cast on the surface of Mars from the Curiosity rover in one of the first images taken after the rover landed on Aug. 5, 2012. It was taken through a "fisheye" wide-angle lens on one of the rover's Hazard-Avoidance cameras. These engineering cameras are located at the rover's base. The Mars science rover Curiosity landed on the Martian surface shortly after 10:30 p.m. Pacific time on Sunday to begin its two-year mission seeking evidence the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life.

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View of a mineral vein on Mars, taken by the Opportunity rover

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An artist's impression of Mars One's planned first settlement on the Red Planet

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The Mars rover Curiosity, photographed at its testing facility Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena, California

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University of Illinois-Chicago computer scientist Jason Leigh, co-inventor of the CAVE2 virtual reality system, poses with a pair of specially designed 3D glasses in the CAVE2 where the system's 72 stereoscopic liquid crystal display panels encircles the viewer 320 degrees and creates a 3D environment that can take you to the bridge of the Starship Enterprise, a flyover the planet Mars, or through the blood vessels of the brain.

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Curiosity will carry the most advanced payload of scientific gear ever used on Mars' surface, a payload more than 10 times as massive as those of earlier Mars rovers. Its assignment: investigate whether conditions have been favorable for microbial life and for preserving clues in the rocks about possible past life. Here, members of the Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity team test an engineering model of the Curiosity rover in the Dumont Dunes near Baker, Calif., on May 10, 2012.

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A demonstrator waves a flag on the Champ de Mars near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, to protest France's planned legalisation of same-sex marriage, on Jan. 13, 2013 .

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NASA's Curiosity rover used the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) to capture this set of 55 high-resolution images, which were stitched together to create this full-color self-portrait on Oct. 31, 2012.

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A new human colony on Mars?

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This Nov. 4, 2011 file photo released by Moscow's Institute for Medical and Biological Problems Russia, shows researcher Sukhrob Kamolov leaving a set of windowless modules after a grueling 520-day simulation of a flight to Mars.

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A rocket carrying NASA's Mars-bound Curiosity rover lifts off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on Nov. 26, 2011

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This image released by NASA shows the Curiosity rover holding a scoop of powdered rock on Mars.

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This image released by NASA shows the Curiosity rover holding a scoop of powdered rock on Mars.

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The Mars Pathfinder rover uses its alpha proton X-ray spectrometer to analyze the Yogi Rock on the surface of Mars

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A view of Mars taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit

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This image dated Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012 and provided by NASA shows the Curiosity rover's wheel tracks on the surface of Mars an image sent from one of the rover's cameras.

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In this image from NASA TV, shot off a video screen, one of the first images from the Curiosity rover is pictured of its wheel after it successfully landed on Mars

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A European Space Agency handout image shows a visualisation of Mars, created from spacecraft imagery.

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This set of NASA handout images compares the Link outcrop of rocks on Mars (L) with similar rocks seen on Earth (R).

Mars,South Polar Region, from 24 Viking Orbiter images,1977

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This computer generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gail Crater beginning to catch morning light.

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This computer generated view depicts part of Mars at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with an area including Gail Crater beginning to catch morning light.

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The giant asteroid Vesta is shown here as the smallest body among other similar bodies in the solar system: Mars, Mercury, Earth's moon and the dwarf planet Ceres.

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A Zenit-2SB rocket, carrying the Phobos-Grunt (Phobos-Soil) spacecraft, stands at a launch pad of the Russian leased Kazakhstan's Baikonur cosmodrome early on November 9, 2011, just before it's blast off toward Mars

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A combination image made with 3-D modeling illustrates possible evidence of liquid water active on Mars today.

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Thomas Mars of Phoenix performs in concert at Madison Square Garden on October 20, 2010 in New York City.

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A stretch of Martian landscape seen from the Phoenix Mars Lander

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Former Presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton shake hands with earthquake survivors during a visit to Champ de Mars near the national palace in Port-au-Prince on March 22, 2010