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Terrific Animation Of Mars Rover Spinning Its Wheels For The First Time
For two weeks, Mars rover Curiosity has been stretching its limbs, so to speak as scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory test out the robot's various instruments before it gets...
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NASA Named Curiosity's Landing Site After A Science Fiction Legend
NASA engineers announced today that they will be naming the landing side of the Curiosity rover after science fiction legend Ray Bradbury, who died earlier this year, on June 5, 2012. "And today, Sol...
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What A Martian Rock Looks Like After It's Zapped With A Laser 50 Times
Curiosity's rover's onboard laser gun is at it again. After a successful test of the ChemChem instrument earlier this week, the rover targeted a rock about 19 feet away. The rock was exposed by the...
View ArticleA One-Ton Rover Landing On Mars Looks So Much Better In HD
Seriously, forget the small, black-and-white photographs. According to NASA these are most high-resolution frames of the Curiosity rover touching down on Mars on Aug. 5 during the treacherous Entry,...
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Crackpots Are Seeing Aliens In The Mars Rover Pictures
According to the fringe sector of the Internet, Mars is practically teeming with aliens. Since NASA's Curiosity rover touched down on the Red Planet two weeks ago and powered up its cameras, it has...
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Will.I.Am Will Debut This New Song From Mars
Earlier this month, we told you that Black Eyed Pea's member will.i.am was teaming up with NASA to debut a new song from his album #willpower via the Curiosity rover on Mars. Well Earthlings, the day...
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The Latest Pictures Of Mars Look Exactly Like Something From Earth
The latest images to be sent back from the Mars rover Curiosity were released by NASA mere hours ago. Although most of the images were enhanced to show Mars as it would appear under the lighting...
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Curiosity Rover Does Donuts On Mars [PHOTOS]
After sitting still on Mars for two weeks, NASA's Curiosity rover is finally making moves. The car-sized robot took its first spin on the Martian surface on Aug. 22 and another on Aug. 27. The rover's...
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Curiosity Starts Quarter-Mile Journey That Could Reveal Secrets Of Mars
As extraterrestrial journeys go, it is not the most imposing challenge that science has faced. Yet the quarter-mile journey on which the Martian rover Curiosity embarked last week is being watched...
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See Curiosity Roving Mars Through Pictures
About a month after landing on the surface of Mars the Curiosity rover has been making headway finding her way around the planet. After days of checking out her instruments, she made her first move...
View ArticleMeet The Family Business That Makes Gears That Go To Mars
This small, family-run gear-making company called Forest City Gear was founded in 1955 by Stetler and Evelyn Young in Roscoe, Illinois. Their son, Fred Young is now CEO of the company. See how he and...
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Curiosity Rover Takes A Bunch Of Cool Self-Portraits
As NASA's Curiosity rover prepares to take her first long drive to a spot called Glenelg, her keepers back on Earth continue to test and inspect several of the robot's cameras and high-tech tools on...
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New Theory Splinters Hope That Mars Once Supported Life
Past observations from Mars orbiters and exploration rovers gave scientists hope that water once existed in shallow lakes on Mars. Some of this evidence was based on clay minerals found on Mars,...
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Curiosity Rover Might Contaminate Mars With Earth Bacteria
NASA seems to have contaminated the Mars rover Curiosity with Earth bacteria, the Los Angeles Times reports. The contamination happened when a team member opened a previously sterile box of drill bits...
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Curiosity Caught Mars' Moon Phobos Photobombing The Sun
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has snapped stunning shots of a brief partial solar eclipse on the Red Planet, capturing images of the tiny Martian moon Phobos crossing the face of the sun. Curiosity took...
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NASA Reveals 'Plan B' If Curiosity Rover Had Crashed
Billions of dollars and future support of NASA's space program hinged on the successful landing of Mars rover Curiosity when it dropped through the Red Planet's atmosphere back in August....
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Curiosity Rover Is Going To Touch Its Very First Rock On Mars
Well folks, a little more than a month after landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover is finally going to start doing some real science. On Thursday, Sept. 20, the one-ton rover will extend is...
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Curiosity Finished Up Her Rock Touching And Has Hit The Road Again
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity reached out and touched a Martian rock with its huge robotic arm for the first time, then took off on its longest Red Planet drive to date. Curiosity spent the past several...
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An Alien Moon Photographed From The Surface Of An Alien Planet
This is pretty hard to make out, but that faint milky smudge in this swath of green appears to be Mars' moon Phobos. Commentor fredk posted the image on the unmannedspaceflight forums. The image was...
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What The Weather Is Like On 10 Other Planets And Moons
On Earth, we get snow, rain, fog, hail, and sleet, and all of them are basically the same thing: water. For a true change of weather, you need to go to other worlds. Here’s a tour of what to expect on...
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