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Two UT Scientists to Begin Searching for Potential Habitats for Life on Mars
Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)
NASA's Curiosity rover is scheduled to land on Mars Sunday. Then, the work will begin for two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors searching for poten...
'Enormous step forward' as NASA lands rover on Mars
Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)
NASA has successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, breaking new ground in US-led explor...
Mars Express marks the spot for Curiosity landing
Aug 06, 2012 (ESA)
Much like a treasure map branded with an 'X' to mark the site of buried bounty, NASA's rover Curiosity will be targeting its very own 'X' inside Gale Crater, to...
NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain
Aug 06, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunda...
Mars Tugging on Approaching NASA Rover Curiosity
Aug 06, 2012 (JPL)
The gravitational tug of Mars is now pulling NASA's car-size geochemistry laboratory, Curiosity, in for a suspenseful landing in less than 40 hours. "After flyi...
Next on Mars: 400 scientists on an alien road trip
Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)
Imagine taking 400 scientists on an alien road trip where each one wants to examine every interesting rock along the way. Welcome to the next two years of NASA'...
Taking a Robotic Geologist to Mars
Aug 06, 2012 (SPX)
On Aug. 5, at about 10:30 p.m., an already busy summer will kick into overdrive for University of Arizona geosciences professor Bob Downs and one of his graduat...
NASA lands rover on Mars to seek signs of life
Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)
NASA opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration on Monday when its $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot Curiosity beamed back pictures from...
Mars Science Lab Curiosity Lands On Mars - First Photos Soon
Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's JPL has safely landed the Mars Science Lab - dubbed Curiosity - at Gale Crater, which lies near a mountain that scientists hope the rover will be able to...
Curiosity Rover Just Hours from Mars Landing
Aug 06, 2012 (JPL)
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is healthy and right on course for a landing in several hours that will be one of the most difficult feats of robotic ...
Mars Science Lab Curiosity Lands On Mars - First Photos Soon
Aug 06, 2012 (AFP)
NASA's JPL has safely landed the Mars Science Lab - dubbed Curiosity - at Gale Crater, which lies near a mountain that scientists hope the rover will be able to...
Are we alone? NASA's Mars rover aims to find out
Aug 05, 2012 (AFP)
Are we alone? Or was there life on another planet? NASA's $2.5 billion dream machine, the Mars Science Laboratory, aims to take the first steps toward finding o...
Mars weather forecast 'good' for NASA landing
Aug 04, 2012 (AFP)
The weather conditions on Mars are expected to be favorable when NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory attempts its risky landing on August 6, the US spac...
India clears mission to Mars
Aug 04, 2012 (AFP)
India's government has cleared plans to put an orbital probe around Mars next year to study the red planet's climate and geology, a report said Saturday. The mi...
Hitchhiking Sensors Capture Curiosity's Entry
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
Screaming through the thin Martian atmosphere at hypersonic speed, the Mars Science Laboratory is about to experience heat and pressure up to three times more i...
Curiosity's First Daredevil Stunt
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
When Curiosity enters the Martian atmosphere on August 6th, setting in motion "the seven minutes of terror" that people around the world have anticipated since ...
MSL Remains on Track for Weekend Landing
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
Curiosity remains in good health, with no significant issues currently in work. There are no real-time activities planned. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraf...
Curiosity's Search for Organics
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
The last time an astrobiology mission landed on Mars, the nation was celebrating the Bicentennial and Gerald Ford was president. The two Viking landers went wit...
The fractured features of Ladon basin
Aug 03, 2012 (ESA)
ESA's Mars Express has observed the southern part of a partially buried approx. 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin. The images, near to where Lado...
Australia is all ears for Mars landing
Aug 03, 2012 (SPX)
Dishes in Australia will be the ones following NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission when it lands on Monday (6 August) after a nail-biting series of manoeuvre...
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