The Exploratorium’s Senior Staff Scientist, physicist Paul Doherty shares the latest news about NASA’s Mars Curiosity mission from the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco – and joins NBCNews’ Alan Boyle in a year-end, year-ahead survey of the top science topics. Follow @b0yle

Links:

http://www.exo.net/~pauld/

http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/05/15705457-mars-hype-teaches-science-lessons?lite

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html