In the world of science a great countdown has started.
Scheduled
August 6, 2012 (Monday), on the surface of Mars will land the largest land rover in history ... rover named "
Curiosity".
The fact that it's a powerful "beast" you can see below in the linked video. It even comes equipped with LIBS-Laser, for sampling of rocks from a distance.
We all keep our fingers crossed, because more than half of the Mars missions ended as a failure. It may be concluded that on Curiosity will depend the future of manned missions to Mars.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P4boyXQuUIw