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Enabling ChemCam to Measure Key Isotopic Ratios on Mars and Other Planets
Dec 18, 2012 (SPX)
On August 6th, 2012 the automatic rover "Curiosity" landed on Mars. One of the scientific instruments on board is ChemCam, which has a pulsed laser capable of a...
Curious About Life: Interview with Darby Dyer
Dec 17, 2012 (SPX)
The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has 10 science instruments, and each will be used in the coming weeks and months to help characterize the environmen...
Opportunity Checking Out Some Rocks At Matijevic Hill
Dec 14, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is located at a place named "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On ...
Curiosity Rover Nearing Yellowknife Bay
Dec 13, 2012 (JPL)
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity drove 63 feet (19 meters) northeastward early Monday, Dec. 10, approaching a step down into a slightly lower area called "Yellowkn...
Charitum Montes: a cratered winter wonderland
Dec 11, 2012 (ESA)
The high-resolution stereo camera on ESA's Mars Express imaged the Charitum Montes region of the Red Planet on 18 June, near to Gale crater and the Argyre basin...
Opportunity Continues Rock Studies
Dec 11, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is located at a place named "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. The...
Orbiter Spies Where Rover's Cruise Stage Hit Mars
Dec 06, 2012 (JPL)
During the 10 minutes before the NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere to deliver the rover Curiosity to the surface, the space...
Safe Driving on Mars
Dec 06, 2012 (SPX)
Matt Heverly doesn't like to make a big deal of his job as the lead driver of the most expensive car in the solar system-NASA's $2.5 billion, two-ton Curiosity ...
Opportunity Rover Does Walkabout Of Crater Rim
Dec 05, 2012 (JPL)
The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout. "If you ...
Ancient Mars May Have Captured Enormous Floodwaters
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
An international research team led by the Planetary Science Institute has found evidence that indicates that approximately 2 billion years ago enormous volumes ...
NASA Announces Multi-Year Mars Program With New Rover In 2020
Dec 05, 2012 (SPX)
Building on the success of Curiosity's Red Planet landing, NASA has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover ...
Curiosity Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars with SAM
Dec 04, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars in Nov. with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument sui...
China prepares to grow vegetables on Mars: state media
Dec 04, 2012 (AFP)
Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test in Beijing, state med...
NASA Mars Rover Fully Analyzes First Soil Samples
Dec 04, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian ...
NASA to send new rover to Mars in 2020
Dec 04, 2012 (AFP)
NASA plans to send a new rover to Mars in 2020 as it prepares for a manned mission to the Red Planet, the US space agency said Tuesday. The announcement came a ...
Opportunity Gets to Work on Interesting Rock Targets
Dec 03, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity, after completing the local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape Y...
Opportunity Gets To Work On Interesting Rock
Nov 30, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity, after completing the local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape Y...
Regional Dust Storm Dissipating
Nov 29, 2012 (JPL)
A regional dust storm on Mars, tracked from orbit since Nov. 10, appears to be abating rather than going global. "During the past week, the regional storm weake...
Matijevic Hill Survey Complete And Rover Passes 22 Miles Of Driving!
Nov 27, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity has completed the local area survey around the location called "Matijevic Hill" (named in honor of Jake Matijevic) at the inboard edge of Cape York ...
One Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars
Nov 27, 2012 (JPL)
The NASA Mars rover Curiosity began its flight to Mars on Nov. 26, 2011, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., tucked inside the Mars Science Laboratory ...
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