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http://articles.latimes.com/2011/jun/07/science/la-sci-rovers-20110607

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Toward year's end, NASA plans to send its $1.8-billion rover to scout for evidence that life could have existed on the Red Planet. Nicknamed Curiosity, the craft will examine rocks that scientists believe could have formed only in warm, wet conditions that may have harbored living beings. ~

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A nuclear-powered lab on wheels, Curiosity has a nearly two-year mission targeting sites containing clay rocks called phyllosilicates that could hold clues about the Martian climate. ~