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Mars Rover Scientists Say They're Sitting On A Discovery For The 'History Books'
The scientists in charge of NASA's Curiosity rover are sitting on some exciting, but not-yet-confirmed news, NPR's Joe Palca reports. The major discovery involves the biggest instrument on the Mars...
View ArticleElon Musk: I'm Going To Put Humans On Mars In 12 Years
In a chat with the BBC's science correspondent Jonathan Amos, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said he aims to put a human on Mars within 15 years. Here's the quote:"I'm hopeful that we'll be able to send our...
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A Story From 2010 Reveals How Over-Hyped NASA's Latest Mars Finding Could Be
The science and space communities were abuzz yesterday when an essentially "non-news" item made the news — Mars Curiosity rover scientist John Grotzinger is excited about some findings that he can't...
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Massive Dust Storm On Mars Jeopardizes The Longest-Running Mars Rover
The weather on Mars has been unusually dusty this past week, which could pose an issue for NASA's aging rover, Opportunity, which is going on nine years exploring Mars' Endeavour crater. On Nov. 10,...
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Elon Musk Wants To Put 80,000 People On Mars
Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for perhaps...
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Martian Caves Could Hold Signs Of Life
NASA is mapping out a strategy to return bits of rock and soil from the Martian surface to Earth, but the most intriguing Red Planet samples lie in underground caverns, some scientists say.The space...
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NASA Will Set The Record Straight About 'Earth-Shaking' Mars Rover Findings...
Today is the big day.NASA will announce some results from the Mars Curiosity rover at the American Geophysical Union meeting in San Francisco at 12 p.m. EST.There has been a lot of build-up to the news...
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Here's What The Mars Rover Found In Its First Analysis Of Martian Soil
After fully analyzing samples of soil on Mars for the first time, NASA scientists announced that the Curiosity rover found traces of water, sulfur, and chlorine, but they are not necessarily of Martian...
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These Are The 5 Most Over-Hyped Mars Discoveries
NASA has been trying to dampen expectations for an upcoming Mars announcement after rumors abounded that the agency's Curiosity rover discovered something big."Rumors and speculation that there are...
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Mars Rover Scientist Learns A Tough Lesson About The Internet
John Grotzinger is the chief project scientist on NASA's Curiosity rover, a one-ton robot that is about four months into its two-year mission to see if the Mars was ever able to support microbial life....
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Astronauts Could Survive Radiation On Mars, But That's Not The Biggest Threat
Measurements from the Curiosity rover's onboard radiation detector, called RAD, show that radiation levels on Mars would allow an astronaut to survive for a little less than two years on the Red...
View ArticleNASA Will Send A Second Curiosity Rover To Mars In 2020
A second Curiosity-like rover will touch down on Mars in 2020, John Mace Grunsfeld, announced today at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco. Grunsfeld is a Management Astronaut...
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The OTHER Mars Rover Is Still Sending Back Awesome Images
The latest findings from NASA's Mars rover, Opportunity, were recently presented at the 45th annual Fall Meeting of the American Geophysical Union in San Francisco, California.Opportunity was launched...
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NASA's Mars Program Will Need Billions More If Scientists Get Their Top...
ATTENDEES at the American Geophysical Union's autumn meeting in San Francisco were expecting to hear some big news about Mars. Sure enough, they got some—just not the sort they had anticipated. Until...
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Curiosity Rover Leaves A Mess On Mars
Even the Curiosity rover turns out to be somewhat of a litter bug. About 10 minutes before the one-ton robot dropped through the Martian atmosphere, it got rid of its cruise stage and two 165-pound...
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The Drill On NASA's $2.5-Billion Mars Rover Is Going To Break
The drill on NASA's $2.5-billion Curiosity rover will break. This is not likely to happen within the robot's two-year mission to explore Mars, but when it does, "all hell [will] break loose...
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Curiosity Rover Had To Practice Taking A Self-Portrait
At the end of October, NASA's Curiosity rover used the high-resolution camera on its robotic arm to snap more than 50 pictures of itself. The resulting self-portrait, first published in November, was...
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How A Team Of Scientists Dropped A One-Ton Science Lab On Mars Completely...
After seven unmanned minutes spent in terror, waiting for the culmination of decades of work, a scream of excitement shook the Curiosity rover's control room on August 5."Touchdown confirmed, we are...
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A Kid Could Do A Better Job Of Building A Gingerbread Mars Rover Than Caltech
The whiz-kids over at Caltech have gone ahead and built the world another Mars rover. Except this time it's made out of gingerbread, licorice, gumdrops and M&Ms.Caltech runs NASA's Jet Propulsion...
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The Search Is On For Water In Our Solar System And Beyond
This article was originally published on The Conversation and has been re-printed here under the Creative Commons license. Earth is the only planet in our solar system with a long-term, stable supply...
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