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Nasa is pushing ahead with plans to launch its next Mars mission in 2009, but acknowledges that extra funds are required to make it happen.
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will be the biggest planetary rover yet; it will be the size of a Mini Cooper.
Engineers are grappling with a number of technical challenges, such as the complexity of the motors that will drive the vehicle across the surface.

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NASA will host a media teleconference at 3 p.m. EDT, Friday, Oct. 10, to brief reporters after a meeting held by the agency's administrator concerning the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL.

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A sophisticated NASA rover slated to blast off to chemically analyse Mars for life may be delayed, modified or cancelled due to cost overruns triggered by technical problems.

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Six potential landing sites have been chosen for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, a large rover set to assess the past habitability of sites on the planet's surface, when it lands in October 2010. The shortlist, chosen from dozens of possibilities, includes craters partly filled with sediment, an ancient flood channel and regions rich in clay minerals thought to date from an era when the Martian surface was wetter than it is today. However, changes to the mission's scope mean that options that might offer excellent science could end up being dismissed as impractical.

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NASA may alter the design of its upcoming Mars Science Laboratory rover so it will not only crush and analyse soil and rocks on the Red Planet, but will also store samples for a future mission to deliver to Earth. The possible change could shorten the wait time for a Mars sample return mission, which a new report ranks as the highest scientific priority for future Mars missions.
Scientists have been asking for a sample return mission since the 1960s, but cost, mission complexity and lack of appropriate technology have prevented any such missions from going forward. Still, they say studying Martian samples in labs on Earth could teach them much more about the climate, geochemistry and possibility of past or present life on Mars than remote studies with robots even those as capable as the Mars Exploration Rovers.

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Mars Science Laboratory is repeating a highly successful process performed for the Mars Exploration Rovers, in which the entire scientific community -- not just the mission's science team -- has been offered the opportunity to provide input into the selection of the landing site. This process is being led by researchers John Grant and Matt Golombek, who are both quite committed to the idea that such openness yields better missions and better science.

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