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  1. Lots more pictures of Clara Ma and her visit to JPL are posted to the JPL Facebook page at http://bit.ly/2JBfXG
  2. A little later today Clara will sign her name on a piece of real rover hardware
  3. Clara Ma doing interviews next to the MSL rover model in the JPL Mars yard http://twitpic.com/6x6uj She named me Curiosity.
  4. @natevw Hmmm, name the baby Curiosity? Just kidding! No end date yet for names, I'll alert when it's getting close.
  5. Participation maps for names going to Mars: http://bit.ly/v9ce3 For US, Calif is in the lead. Worldwide, Brazil is a very close 2nd!
  6. I'll take everyone's name to Mars! Sign up to put your name on the microchip: http://bit.ly/12RCl3
  7. 6th grader Clara Ma who wrote the essay to name me Curiosity comes to JPL on Monday. She'll meet the team & put her signature on me.
  8. I have a four potential landing sites on Mars. Wanna see them? vid at http://bit.ly/P7ntW narrated by Rich Zurek, chief sci for Mars.
  9. Naming contest winner Clara Ma receives award certificate from my mission engineer Suparna Mukherjee pic: http://twitpic.com/6290x
  10. Report from onsite at Clara's school: enormous cheers and a standing ovation after Clara just read her essay naming me Curiosity.
  11. Clara Ma is being honored this AM at her school in Lenexa, KS for winning the naming contest. Read her entry here: http://bit.ly/6V0Gm
  12. RT @gregtrotter: @MarsScienceLab stay away from my cat! [LOL! don't worry, I'm going after Mars rocks!]
  13. Those are great suggestions! But my new name, just announced, is Curiosity! 6th grader Clara Ma submitted the winning name.
  14. It's about time I get a new name. Anyone curious what it might be?
  15. A new 3D photosynth highlights me and the ISS - courtesy of an agreement between NASA and Microsoft's Virtual Earth team http://tr.im/kJNN
  16. @IanDavidB Colbert Propulsion Laboratory?! I like the ring to that!
  17. Come to JPL Open House May 2 & 3 if you want to see me! If you can't come, watch a live tour on Ustream: http://tr.im/jA2g #JPLOpen
  18. @ZorkFox At 51 ft (16m) diameter, it's larger than a shuttle drag chute (which is about 40 ft)
  19. @digitalfallout The capsule is equally enormous. The heat shield measures 15 ft (4.6 meters) in diameter! Pic: http://tr.im/iWa9
  20. @bburzycki Yes, that was taken at Ames, inside the world's largest wind tunnel http://tr.im/iW3k Click on pic for full caption.