These pictures show the four potential landing sites that NASA scientists will try and send the new rover, Curiosity, which is tipped to become the next Mars explorer. The robot will replace the Phoenix Mars lander after recent photos taken of it from orbit revealed that it had been damaged on its latest voyage. For the past three years NASA has researched potential landing sites and has whittled the options down from 60 to four.
'These are the best places you could possibly imagine you would want to go, and for the first time, you can actually land near them and get to them,' Matthew Golombek, who is on the Curiosity rover landing site steering committee, said to Space.com
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