NASA's Mars Curiosity to rely on jet-powered ‘sky crane’ to land on the Red Planet

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6 things you may not know about Mars

It’s called the red planet because the landscape is stained rusty-red by the iron-rich dust

Its gravity is only 38 per cent that of Earth. So if you weigh 68 kilograms (150 pounds) on Earth, you would weigh 26 kilograms (57 pounds) on Mars

Mars’ temperatures can range from 27 degrees Celsius at its equator to -199 -128 Celsius at its poles…

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