Who says NASA doesn't have big plans for the next decade? Following the universally extolled launch of Curiosity onto Mars' surface earlier this year, the American space entity is reportedly looking to launch another in 2020. The news was dealt at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco today, and while details are thin at the moment, we're hearing that the next-generation 'bot will be "based on Curiosity." John Mace Grunsfeld, a NASA Management Astronaut and the Associate Administrator of the Science Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters, was cited as the man responsible for divulging the news. We'll update this post with more should further details emerge.
Via: Business Insider
Source: Jonathan Amos (Twitter)
http://www.engadget.com/2012/12/04/nasa-curiosity-launch-mars-rover-2020/
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