Mars Rover’s ‘Gagarin’ Moment Applauded Exploration

Posted by brandoniswrite on October 18, 2010

A flat, light-toned rock on Mars visited by NASA‘s Mars Exploration Rover in 2005 informally bears the name of the first human in space, Yuri Gagarin, who rode into orbit in the Soviet Union’s Vostok-1 spacecraft on April 12, 1961. The team using Opportunity to explore the Meridiani Planum region of Mars since 2004 chose [...]

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