This portion of an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, released by NASA August 10, 2012, has been annotated to show the relative positions between NASA's Curiosity rover (R) and the impact site of its sky crane, or descent stage. REUTERS/NASA/JPL-Caltech/University of Arizona/Handout
PASADENA, California (Reuters) - After flying more than 350 million miles (563 million km) from Earth, the Mars rover Curiosity is about to get its driver's license.
Mission control engineers in California will spend the next four days remotely installing new computer software in Curiosity that essentially reorients the brains of the six-wheeled vehicle for manoeuvring around the surface of the Red Planet.
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