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NASA Announces Plans for New Mars Rover

Set for 2020

Reason Staff | 12.5.2012 8:12 AM

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NASA officials plan to build a new rover that would follow Curiosity on the surface of Mars.

The announcement electrified many of the roughly 18,000 researchers attending the American Geophysical Union's fall meeting this week in San Francisco.

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