NASA rover takes first spin around Mars

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has taken a 16-minute drive, its first since reaching the Red Planet to search for habitats that could have supported microbial life.

The $2.5-billion, two-year mission, NASA's first astrobiology initiative since the 1970s-era Viking probes, kicked off on August 6, with a risky, but successful landing on at a site NASA has named "Bradbury Landing," a nod to the late
science fiction author and space aficionado Ray Bradbury.

Al Jazeera's Rob Reynolds reports from Los Angeles.