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A peek at what NASA’s new rover packed for Mars

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PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — If you were packing for Mars, what would you bring?

NASA’s latest tourist, the roving robot named Curiosity, will lug around a suite of gadgets to snap pictures, sniff, taste and even drill. It will study the environment to figure out whether the giant crater where it lands ever possessed a habitable environment for microbial life.

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