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Explore A Room With a Mars View

Jet Propulsion Laboratory https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/ Aug. 4, 2012
JPL's Mission Support Area (MSA), shown in this panorama, will be the hub of activity on Aug. 5 as mission team members monitor the careful and intricate entry, descent and landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars. Visit to explore the room a bit further and get a who's who of team members - and one lucky room essential. | http://bit.ly/mslmsa

New panorama gives viewers an inside look at the room where mission team members will guide NASA's Curiosity rover through its entry, descent and landing on Mars.

On the evening of Sunday, Aug. 5, the focal point of Martian activity here on Earth will be located in the Mission Support Area in Building 230 at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. From this facility will come news of the progress of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover's landing. Visit an interactive page at http://bit.ly/mslmsa to explore the room a bit further and get a who's who of team members - as well as the history of one dry-roasted room essential.

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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory and its Curiosity rover are a project of NASA's Science Mission Directorate. The mission is managed by JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. Curiosity was designed, developed and assembled at JPL.

For information about NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission and its Curiosity rover, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/mars and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ . You can follow the mission on Facebook and on Twitter at http://www.facebook.com/marscuriosity and http://www.twitter.com/marscuriosity .

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