To transport the one-ton rover and position it near the mound, engineers devised a complicated system that includes a 52-foot (16-metre) diameter supersonic parachute, a rocket-powered aerial platform and a so-called "sky crane" designed to lower the rover on a tether to the ground.
Like many 100, 000-mile-a-year sky travelers, I like to wear noise cancelling headsets when I fly.
One of the pieces - Wild Bells to a Wild Sky - will be created by the Central Council of Church Bell Ringers.
Too big to rely on air bags to cushion its fall as with previous Mars landers, Curiosity landed through an automated system of high-speed maneuvers, a supersonic parachute, eight retro-rockets and a set of "sky-crane" tethers that lowered the vehicle gently the last few feet to the ground.
Grids of multi-coloured letters and numbers illuminate the background, itself computer-enhanced to resemble a pitch-black sky.
"You can no longer just take a short drive from the city and look at the Milky Way or the northern lights, " says Chad Moore, a board director for the International Dark-Sky Association, a Tucson-based nonprofit organization.
U.S. diplomats opening a new American Embassy were temporarily housed in a sky-high suite of the pricey Corinthia Hotel.
At the story's center are all the clanging fireballs a kid could want to watch whizzing across a computerized sky -- not to mention naval strategy and a fact-based demonstration of real destroyer-ship capabilities.
Beneath the two passenger decks of this modified super jumbo is an Air Force One-style air-stair -- allowing access to the tarmac without the need for a sky-bridge or external staircase -- and a crew dining area, crew gallery, crew bathroom, sleeping quarters for eight on bunk beds, a communications room and spiral staircase leading to the main deck.
The ladylike silhouettes are about as simple as Ms. Herrera gets, but that's all the better to shine a spotlight on the charming patterns, which range from beach chairs to painterly daisies on a sky-blue background.
The bathroom now has a sloped ceiling, added windows, a skylight, hand-cut sky-blue glass tiles in the shower, a big white tub and contemporary oak cabinets with Carrara marble tops.
The Edinburgh club are launching a re-modelled maroon outfit with a white v-neck, but a proposed second kit in either sky blue or yellow has been given the thumbs-down by the Jambos support.
In October 2012, The Defenders of Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, and the Sierra Club, filed suit in the Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, California to reopen an environmental review of a 100-turbine North Sky River wind project and a smaller adjacent Jawbone project in the mountains north of the Mojave Desert over threats to California condors.
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Country harmonies tumble along, a pedal steel evokes big-sky country, and a gentle piano keeps the song moving in a poised shuffle.
And astronomers are just as likely to point a software query-tool at a digital sky survey as to point a telescope at the stars.
The 8 free games for Mac gamers include retro-cool point-and-click adventure game Beneath a Steel Sky, action-packed top-down shooter Tyrian 2000, legendary RPG Ultima IV, and multiplayer FPS Warsow, among others.
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Using big loans to finance expansion, it has a sky-high debt-to-equity ratio of more than 300%.
At the moment, estimates have a sky-is-no-limit feel to them, and the optimism is not just limited to the Chinese.
Skydive Milwaukee, a sky-diving school, has for more than a decade hosted an annual Easter event for local kids featuring an airborne Easter Bunny.
Poverty : The Census Bureau recently reported that we have a sky-high poverty rate: 15 percent of the population lives in poverty, or 46.2 million people.
How could investors justify giving it a sky-high premium?
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Israel's Netanyahu will seek alternate sleeping arrangements when traveling after receiving a sky-high bill for installing a customized bed on a recent flight to London, officials close to the prime minister said.
It was a pitch-perfect sky blue day when the driver arrived to chauffeur me around town in the 2012 Bentley Mulsanne for a full day of New York business on a Monday in August.
But to its proponents this is not pie - or indeed a power station - in the sky.
The trailer-mounted radar is a "phased array" type - it scans the sky with a narrow beam which flicks between thousands of locations each second.
ENGLEWOOD, Colorado (CNN) -- Columbine High School's class of 1999 graduated Saturday beneath a brightly lit spring sky -- and the glare of national television cameras.
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"Fearful of the outcome, King Angus led prayers for deliverance and was rewarded by seeing a cloud formation of a white Saltire - the diagonal cross against which Saint Andrew had been martyred - against a clear blue sky, " writes Mr Reid.
But the difference between making a living and growing to the sky--or even just a few feet taller--is planning.
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