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INFORMATION ABOUT 'CURIOSITY CAM' AND THE MISSION
Look inside the clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., to watch the next Mars rover being built. The camera is located in a viewing gallery above the clean room floor. There is no audio on this video feed.

Technicians are working from approximately 8 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. PDT Monday through Friday (except holidays). The camera shows a portion of the clean room that is typically active; but the rover, spacecraft components and technicians may move out of view as work shifts to other areas of the room. When activity takes place in other testing facilities around JPL, the clean room may be empty. The camera also may be turned off periodically. We will update this page often to inform viewers of these situations.

Want to see where the camera is located? This shot gives you the reverse view

If you've arrived during off hours or during a period when activity is out of view, you can scroll lower on this page to find archived videos.

FAST FACTS
Mission name: Mars Science Laboratory
Rover name: Curiosity rover
Size: About the size of a car -- 10 feet long (not including the arm), 9 feet wide and 7 feet tall!
Weight: 900 kilograms (2,000 pounds)
Features: Geology lab, rocker-bogie suspension, rock-vaporizing laser and lots of cameras
Mission: To search areas of Mars for past or present conditions favorable for life, and conditions capable of preserving a record of life
Launch: Between Nov. 25–Dec. 18, 2011, from Cape Canaveral, Florida
Arrival: August 2012 at Mars
Length of mission on Mars: The prime mission will last one Mars year or about 23 Earth months.
Mission Fact sheet: Download the PDF

For information about Curiosity’s power source and to obtain high-resolution images, visit:
http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/news/newsroom/

Send your name to Mars! Your name will be included with others on a microchip attached to the rover: Sign up!

Curiosity's clean room technicians are covered head-to-toe in white smocks, aka "bunny suits," complete with booties, facemasks and gloves. This helps protect against Earthly contaminants hitching a ride on the rover to Mars.

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Social Media:
You're online, and Curiosity is, too. "Like," follow and get news here:
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/MarsCuriosity
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/marscuriosity
• Mission pages: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/
or http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/building_curiosity.html

Two other rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have been on Mars since 2004. You can read about those rovers here, or follow @MarsRovers on Twitter.

For news on other missions at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, visit:
• Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NASAJPL
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/NASAJPL
• Homepage: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/

Questions? Comments? Need to reach us? Send e-mail to:
ChatQuestion at JPL dot NASA dot gov