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<p>AP Photo/Nick Ut Rob Manning, chief engineer, speaks to the media at NASA Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena on July 25. Beside Manning is a model of the Mars rover, Curiosity. After traveling 8 1/2 months and 352 million miles, Curiosity will attempt a landing on Mars the night of Aug. 5.</p>

<p>AP Photo/Nick Ut Rob Manning, chief engineer, speaks to the media at NASA Mars Yard at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena on July 25. Beside Manning is a model of the Mars rover, Curiosity. After traveling 8 1/2 months and 352 million miles, Curiosity will attempt a landing on Mars the night of Aug. 5.</p>

July 31, 2012

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