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美国“火星科学实验室”(MSL)将于2011年11月25日-12月18日发射,于2012年8月6-20日在火星的盖尔环形山(GaleCrater)着陆,计划工作时间为1个火星年(687个地球日)。在此期间,它所携带的好奇号火星车将挖掘火星土壤,钻取火星岩石粉末,对岩石样本进行分析,探测火星过去或现在是否具有支持微生物生存的环境,从而确定火星是否具有可居住性。“火星科学实验室”项目的主承包商为波音公司和洛马公司,整个项目由美国航空航天局(NASA)喷气推进实验室(JPL)管理,该项目总成本约为25亿美元。
The United States of America Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will be launched from November 25 to December 18, 2011 and will land on Mars Gale Cyclone on August 6-20, 2012. The planned working hours For a Mars year (687 Earth Day). In the meantime, the Curiosity rover it carries excavated Mars soil, drilled Martian rock powder, analyzed rock samples to see if Mars had or did not have an environment that supports microbial survival to determine Mars’s habitability . The prime contractor for the Mars Science Laboratory is Boeing and Loma Inc. The entire project is managed by NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which has a total cost of approximately $ 2.5 billion.