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Members of the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity team test out an engineering model of its next generation Mars rover, dubbed 'Curiosity', in the desert near Baker, California.
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According to a press release from NASA, the rover is 89 days away from its August appointment with Mars.
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Launched on November 26, 2011, it is due to touch down near the base of a mountain inside Gale Crater, on the Martian equator, in August 2012.
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Members of the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity team, which include rover drivers and scientists, run a test between an engineering model of the current rover on Mars (front) and its successor, dubbed "Curiosity" (back), in the desert near Baker, California.
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With 89 days away from the Red Planet, scientists test a model of its next generation Mars rover, dubbed Curiosity in a California desert.
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Matt Heverly (C), a robotics engineer with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, talks about the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity team, which includes rover drivers and scientists, as they test out an engineering model of its next generation Mars rover, dubbed "Curiosity", in the desert near Baker, California.
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A cameraman, part of a news crew, films as NASA tests an engineering model of its next generation Mars rover, dubbed "Curiosity", in the desert near Baker, California.
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Its mission is to search areas of Mars for past or present conditions favourable for life, and conditions capable of preserving a record of life.
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John Leichty, a robotics engineer with NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory who is also part of the Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity team of rover drivers and scientists, controls a rover in the desert near Baker, California.
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Matt Roman, an engineer with Space Science Systems, works with a photo system, identical to the one possessed by the new rover headed to Mars, in the desert near Baker, California.
