This photograph of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, was taken during mobility testing on June 3, 2011. The location is inside the Spacecraft Assembly Facility at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif.
Curiosity is about twice as long and more than five times as heavy as any previous Mars rover. Its 10 science instruments include two for ingesting and analyzing samples of powdered rock delivered by the rover's robotic arm. During a prime mission lasting one Martian year -- nearly two Earth years.
Researchers will use the tools on the rover to study whether the landing region has had environmental conditions favorable for supporting microbial life and favorable for preserving clues about whether life existed.

Curiosity, was shipped to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 23, 2011.

Preparations are on track for launch during the period Nov. 25 to Dec. 18, 2011.

JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Mars Science Laboratory mission for the NASA Science Mission Directorate, Washington.
This new Mars mission will land Curiosity on Mars in August 2012, the rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale Crater. .

Mars Rover "Curiosity" at JPL.

Each of the six wheels contains one electric motor. All motor bearings are lubricated with SynLube™.

The lubricant is also used in 7 other locations on the Rover.
Total of 260 cc of SynLube™ are on  used in this Mars Rover !

Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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