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Also by Marc Kaufman:

Mars Landing 2012, July 2012
e-Book
First Contact, April 2011
Hardcover

MARS LANDING 2012
By: Marc Kaufman

Inside the NASA Curiosity Mission

National Geographic Society
July 2012
On Sale: July 17, 2012
ISBN: 1426210930
EAN: 9781426210938
Kindle: B0084UNCK8
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Non-Fiction

National Geographic presents the science, the goals, and the anticipation of humankind’s most ambitious planetary expedition ever: the Curiosity mission to Mars. On August 6, 2012 (EST), NASA’s Curiosity spacecraft will complete its 255-day, 354-million-mile journey and plunge down into Gale Crater, its target on the martian surface, decelerating from 13,200 to 0 mph in 7 minutes. The whole world will be watching this, the most complicated and precise landing ever undertaken, and wondering: What’s the inside story on this Curiosity mission, and what do NASA scientists hope Curiosity will find? In this e-short, written by Washington Post science correspondent Marc Kaufman and published just as the suspense builds, with Curiosity hurtling toward Mars, space science readers, techies, and informed news junkies will find answers to these and other fascinating questions about the red planet.

Media Buzz

Diane Rehm Show - NPR - July 30, 2012