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This image shows an artist's conception of the Mars Science Laboratory rover, a large, six-wheeled rover with a camera on top of a mast atop a flat, rectangular deck that also bears a disk-shaped, high-gain antenna. Behind the larger rover is a depiction of the smaller Mars Exploration Rover, about half the size of the larger rover. Both rovers are superimposed upon and appear to be driving across a red, rock-strewn surface with a hill in the background, which is a copy of an actual image of Mars sent to Earth by the Spirit rover from the 'Columbia Hills.'

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The Mars Science Laboratory will be much larger than NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers that began exploring the red planet in early 2004.

Credit: NASA

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