NASA's New Mars 2020 Car May Look Like the Curiosity Rover, But It's No Twin

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NASA's New Mars 2020 Car May Look Like the Curiosity Rover, But It's No Twin

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From Space.com:
"NASA plans to launch a rover to Mars this July to hunt for signs of ancient Red Planet life.
The new Mars 2020 rover's body is similar to that of the older Curiosity rover, which landed in 2012. But the two machines are quite different in important ways."

https://www.space.com/nasa-mars-2020-ro ... -twin.html

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