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NASA's Mars rover makes first test drive
Aug 22, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Wednesday made its first test drive, leaving wheel tracks near its landing spot -- now dubbed "Bradbury Landing" in honor of late...
Curiosity rover set for first test drive
Aug 22, 2012 (UPI)
NASA gave the Mars Curiosity rover driving commands ahead of its first test-drive across the Martian surface Wednesday, the space agency's field center said. Th...
Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock
Aug 21, 2012 (JPL)
Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "...
Russian Mars Water Sniffer Goes Online
Aug 21, 2012 (RIA Novosti)
A Russian neutron detector on board NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, designed to search for any water that might be bound into shallow underground minerals along th...
Where Will Curiosity Go First?
Aug 21, 2012 (JPL)
By now it's old news that NASA's new Mars rover Curiosity is resting safely on the surface of Red Planet after a daredevil landing that had the nation holding i...
Fantastic Phobos
Aug 21, 2012 (ESA)
Some 135 years after its discovery, Mars' largest moon Phobos is seen in fantastic detail - and in 3D - in an image taken by ESA's Mars Express spacecraft as it...
New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars
Aug 21, 2012 (SPX)
NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differ...
NASA wants to measure 'Marsquakes'
Aug 20, 2012 (AFP)
Just 10 days after NASA's Curiosity rover sent back its first color photos of the Martian landscape, the US space agency said Monday it wants in 2016 to take a ...
Curiosity Finds Humor on Mars
Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)
Who knew that landing a rover on Mars could be so funny? But when NASA's Curiosity successfully touched down on Mars last week, the outpouring of jokes really t...
How a Mars Sample Return Mission Can Go Electric
Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)
Solving the mystery of life on Mars requires robots to collect Martian samples for a return to Earth - a mission that may come with the astronomical price tag o...
Microsemi Space Solutions On Board Historic Mars Rover Mission
Aug 17, 2012 (SPX)
Microsemi, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, has extended its congratulations to NAS...
Mars rover takes 'cool' detour: NASA
Aug 17, 2012 (AFP)
The US space agency NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will make a wide detour to explore a "cool" geographical hot spot on Mars, scientists said Friday. The scientist...
Opportunity is on the Move Again
Aug 17, 2012 (JPL)
Opportunity is on the move again at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sols 3036 and 3037 (Aug. 8 and 9, 2012), the rover completed a...
India to launch Mars mission: PM
Aug 15, 2012 (AFP)
India plans to launch a space probe that will orbit Mars, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh confirmed on Wednesday after press reports that the mission was schedule...
Orbiter Views New Mars Rover In Color
Aug 15, 2012 (JPL)
The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA's rover Curiosity on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that the rover...
NASA's Curiosity Beams Back a Color 360 of Gale Crater
Aug 13, 2012 (JPL)
The first images from Curiosity's color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, have been received by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. The 13...
NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving
Aug 13, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning to software better suited for tasks ahead, such as driving and using its strong r...
Opportunity Will Resume Driving Soon
Aug 13, 2012 (JPL)
With Curiosity on the Surface Opportunity Will Resume Driving Soon - August 02-07, 2012 - sols 3030-3035. Activity has been constrained for the period around th...
ChemCam sends digital 'thumbs up'
Aug 13, 2012 (SPX)
Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team got a digital thumbs up about the operational readiness of their instrument just hours after...
UCLA scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars
Aug 13, 2012 (SPX)
For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth. Now, a UCLA scientist has discovered that the geol...
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