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MSL Mission Coverage

MSL: Spacecraft separation!
Date: November 26, 2011 Duration: 3 min 17 sec An onboard video camera mounted to the Centaur upper stage shows the Mars Science Laboratory separating from the rocket to begin its 354-million-mile trek to the red planet.
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MSL: Launch success
Date: November 26, 2011 Duration: 3 min 15 sec NASA launch manager Omar Baez reviews the countdown and ascent of the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that successfully deployed the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft.
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MSL: Project manager interview
Date: November 26, 2011 Duration: 9 min 15 sec This is a pre-launch interview with Mars Science Laboratory Project Manager Peter Theisinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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MSL: Previewing Atlas' ascent
Date: November 26, 2011 Duration: 5 min 9 sec 5Learn about the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket's flight trajectory to deploy the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft on its interplanetary voyage.
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MSL: Atlas rocket's pre-launch campaign
Date: November 26, 2011 Duration: 6 min 58 sec This narrated movie compiles the highlights from the Atlas 5 rocket's pre-flight campaign at Cape Canaveral in preparation to launch the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft.
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MSL's pre-launch campaign
Date: November 26, 2011 Duration: 7 min 34 sec This narrated movie compiles the highlights of the Mars Science Lab and Curiosity rover undergoing the pre-launch preparation campaign in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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MSL: Spacecraft cleanroom tour
Date: November 26, 2011 Duration: 4 min 15 sec David Gruel, manager of the Mars Science Lab's assembly, test and launch operations, provides this cleanroom tour to show the various elements of the spacecraft.
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MSL: Atlas rocket rolled out for launch
Date: November 25, 2011 Duration: 4 min 36 sec Towering 20 stories tall, the massive United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket is wheeled from its assembly building to the pad to begin final preparations to send NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft to the red planet.
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MSL: Rollout time-lapse views
Date: November 25, 2011 Duration: 53 sec These three time-lapse videos were shot from a camera mound on the beach, atop the liquid oxygen ball at Complex 41 and inside the Vertical Assembly Building showing the Atlas 5 rocket's rollout.
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MSL: Mars future
Date: November 23, 2011 Duration: 48 min 9 sec Originating from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, this is the "Missions to Mars: Robotics and Humans Together" briefing looking to the future.
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MSL: Pre-launch news conference
Date: November 23, 2011 Duration: 50 min 35 sec NASA, United Launch Alliance and Air Force officials hold the traditional pre-launch news conference for the Mars Science Lab and Atlas 5 rocket.
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MSL: Rover science briefing
Date: November 23, 2011 Duration: 63 min 46 sec Learn all about the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover and its science instruments in live briefing held at the Kennedy Space Center.
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MSL: Life in the Universe
Date: November 23, 2011 Duration: 42 min 7 sec Mars Science Lab pre-flight briefing series continues with "Looking for Signs of Life in the Universe" panel from Kennedy Space Center.
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MSL: Knowledge of the Red Planet
Date: November 23, 2011 Duration: 28 min A series of science briefings leading up to Curiosity rover's launch begins with the "What Do We Know About Mars?" conference.
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MSL: Getting onto the Martian surface
Date: November 20, 2011 Duration: 2 min 30 sec This narrated animation depicts the 7-minute sequence of Mars Science Laboratory's entry, descent and landing on the Red Planet.
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MSL: Curiosity exploring Mars
Date: November 20, 2011 Duration: 2 min 2 sec This narrated animation depicts the Curiosity rover exploring the Red Planet for the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
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MSL: The landing site
Date: November 20, 2011 Duration: 2 min 30 sec This animation shows Gale Crater on the Red Planet where the Mars Science Laboratory mission is headed with the Curiosity rover.
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MSL: Rover nuclear power source
Date: November 17, 2011 Duration: 14 min 38 sec The multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generator (MMRTG) for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission is lifted up and into the Vertical Integration Facility for installation into the Curiosity rover.
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MSL: Meeting up with the Atlas 5
Date: November 3, 2011 Duration: 3 min 35 sec An overhead crane carefully lifts the Mars Science Laboratory into the Vertical Integration Facility and places the spacecraft atop the rocket for launch.
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MSL: Traveling to meet rocket
Date: November 3, 2011 Duration: 6 min 28 sec A middle-of-the-night trek across the Kennedy Space Center to Complex 41 delivers the Mars Science Laboratory to the Atlas 5 rocket's Vertical Integration Facility.
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