The Jet Propulsion Laboratory or JPL for short is a government funded research and development center and NASA field center for robotic exploration of the solar system.
Among JPL's most prominent projects is the Mars' Curiosity rover that was launched by NASA on November 26, 2011, and is scheduled to land on the "Red Planet" on August 6, 2012.
Decked out with state-of-the-art equipment, the rover's task will be to scour the planet's surface to look for past or present life, study the geology and collect data.
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