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Mars Was Once Covered In Hip-Deep Flowing Water
The Curiosity rover's science team has come to a consensus: There was once a large amount of flowing water in Gale Crater. They can't say when, or for how long, but based on the types, shapes and...
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The Mars Rover Curiosity Cost Each American $8
Amy Shira Teitel has a great blog post up over at Vintage Science, about how much NASA's Mars rover Curiosity actually cost us. We throw the $2.5 Billion figure around a lot, but here are a few...
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Curiosity Rover Has Reached Her First Major Stop
On her 52nd day on Mars, the Curiosity rover has reached her first big stop: Glenelg. Matt Heverly, whose twitter profile says he's on Curiosity's rover driving team, sent out this image earlier today...
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Curiosity Is About To Dig Into A Martian Sand Dune
The Jet Propulsion Team has announced today that they've reached the perfect place to test out their scooping mechanisms. The area is very near Glenelg, and contains lots of nice sandy soil in which...
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Curiosity Got Distracted By Some Shiny Plastic And Stalled Her Scooping Mission
The Mars Curiosity rover was in the middle of her sand-scooping mission on Sol 61, when she got distracted by a shiny object in the sand. You can see the shiny piece in the image above, circled by...
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First Scoop Of Mars Dirt Looks A Lot Like Baking Flour
On Sunday, Oct. 7, 61 one days after the Curiosity rover landed on Mars, NASA used the scoop on her robotic arm for the first time to dig up a small batch of Martian soil. It turns out the elusive...
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NASA: We Think The Shiny Object Is Part Of The Rover, Not Alien Material
Two nights ago, the space enthusiast twitterverse lit up when a shiny object was sighted on Mars and interrupted Curisoity's soil-scooping mission. The Curiosity rover stopped the mission to...
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Bubbles In 700,000-Year-Old Meteorites Contain Ancient Martian Air
Black glass from a Martian meteorite that crashed in Morocco last summer may shed light on not only the surface of the Red Planet but also its interior and atmosphere, a new study reveals. Rocks are...
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Curiosity's First Science Target Turns Out To Be A New And Unexpected Type Of...
A rock on Mars being studied by NASA's Curiosity rover is unlike any Martian stone ever seen, and is surprisingly similar to an unusual, but well-known, kind of rock on Earth. This type of rock is the...
View ArticleBill Nye Pleads With America To Ask The President For NASA Money
In a recent YouTube video, Bill Nye asks for your help to restore the budget for NASA's planetary exploration program. The letter is asking to allocate $1.5 billion to NASA for the next five years in...
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Mystery Over Shiny Particles On Mars Gets More Exciting
NASA's Curiosity rover had been on Mars 61 days when she gathered her first scoop of soil. Before the one-ton robot could finish sifting through her first small bucket of dust, however, all the...
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NASA: We Still Don't Know What Those Shiny Particles On Mars Are, But They're...
NASA confirmed this afternoon that some bright particles found in a hole dug by the Curiosity's scooper are actually from Mars and not debris from the rover. This is the second round of shiny...
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It's A Race Against Time To Determine If Mars Has Frost
The Mars Curiosity rover has spent the last two weeks scooping, shaking and sampling its first taste of Mars dirt at a patch of windblown sand called "Rocknest." The purpose of all this digging and...
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Felix Baumgartner: Mars Is A Waste Of Money
Given the way in which he achieved his fame, it is perhaps not unreasonable to assume that Felix Baumgartner would be a champion of space exploration. But the Austrian daredevil, who travelled to the...
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Curiosity's New Tests Show That Martian Soils Look Like Hawaiian Sands
The soils in the Martian valley of Gale Crater are similar in composition to sand found in Hawaii, NASA officials said during a teleconference today October 30. Here's the area where the Curiosity...
View ArticleObama's Win Is Going To Keep NASA On Track
President Barack Obama's re-election Tuesday night (Nov. 6) means NASA will likely continue along its current path, working to get astronauts to an asteroid by 2025 among other goals.A change of course...
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New Google Mars Images Are Even Sharper Than Google's View Of Our Own Planet
Google Mars is a spin-off of Google Earth that shows interactive maps of the Red Planet's surface. The feature was released in 2009 as part of the free downloadable Google Earth app, but until now,...
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Mars Rover Makes Crucial Discovery For Putting An Astronaut On Mars
The Mars Curiosity rover is three months into its two-year mission to determine if Mars was, or still is, able to support life. One life-limiting factor to habitability — and critical to a future...
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Martian Dust Devils Keep Landing On Curiosity
The pictures that the Mars Curiosity Rover send back may look placid and peaceful, but life in Gale crater can get windy at times, new data suggests.NASA researchers announced today evidence of dust...
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Mars Has A Strong Potential For Life
To understand Mars we need to understand its on-again off-again tango with liquid water.It’s not just the search for past or present life on Mars that hinges on this, but the search for a complete...
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