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<p><em>"It weighs almost a tonne, has cost more than $2bn and, in 2013, it will be lowered on to the surface of Mars with a landing system that has never been tried before"</em></p> <p><img src="http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/47318000/jpg/_47318480_pia11429-1.jpg" alt="" width="466" height="350" /></p>