In Pictures: The fascinating world of the ubiquitous antenna

The antenna - it has been around so long and is mounted and used so routinely it is rarely even noticed. But such antenna technology has changed a lot over the years and has gone into space, war, water and just about anywhere else you can imagine. Here we take a look the world of the ubiquitous antenna.

Here, Jennifer Trosper, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission manager, points out the communications antenna on a model of NASA's Mars science rover Curiosity as she speaks during a news conference at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif. The Curiosity rover will search for signs the Red Planet may once have harbored key ingredients for life.

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