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Obama to NASA experts: 'Let me know if you find Martians'Aboard Air Force One (AFP) Aug 13, 2012 US President Barack Obama on Monday ribbed scientists behind NASA's roving robot Curiosity, instructing them to let him know right away if they found life on Mars. "If in fact, you do make contact with Martians, please let me know right away," Obama joked, as he called the scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California from Air Force One. "I've got a lot of other things on my plate, but I suspect that that will go to the top of the list. Even if they're just microbes, it will be pr ... read more |
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 Opportunity Will Resume Driving Soon 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 the arrival of Curiosity. The proj ... more | .. |
 ChemCam sends digital 'thumbs up' 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 the rover landed on Martian soil late ... more | .. |
 UCLA scientist discovers plate tectonics on Mars 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 geological phenomenon, which involves the ... more | .. |
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 NASA's Curiosity Beams Back a Color 360 of Gale Crater 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 130 low-resolution thumbnails, which wer ... more | .. |
 NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving 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 robotic arm. The rover's "brain transpl ... more | .. |
  Dutch reality show to offer one-way tickets to Mars As the world marvels at the latest US Mars landing, a Dutch start-up is aiming to beat NASA at its own game by sending the first humans to the red planet - and film all as a reality show. ... more | .. |
 Mars rover captures crash landing NASA said Friday that a mysterious spot shown on a photograph sent back to Earth by the Mars rover Curiosity was the crash landing of its rocket stage. ... more |
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 Orbiter Images NASA's Latest Additions To Martian Landscape Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the components that helped ... more | .. |
 Engineering Team Develops Chip for Mars Rover NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Rover Curiosity would have a hard time completing its mission if it were not for a successful partnership between the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and a professor-student ... more | .. |
 First 360-Degree Panorama From Nasa'S Curiosity Mars Rover Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on Mars. The images from Curiosity's ... more | .. |
 Curiosity's second day on Mars 'flawless': NASA NASA rover Curiosity's second day on Mars went "flawlessly," NASA said Wednesday, confirming the antennas, communication links and generator on the $2.5 billion robot are all working well. ... more |
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  As Curiosity Explores Mars, Russia's Spacemen Take Stock Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 09, 2012 The United States has successfully launched its fourth surface rover to Mars in 16 years. Russia, on the other hand, recently endured the painful failure of the Ph ... more | .. |
 Mission Success for MSL Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrument (MEDLI) Mission success for the MSL Entry, Descent, and Landing Instrument (MEDLI) Suite. When the Curiosity rover touched down on the red planet Aug. 6 at 12:32 p.m. CDT, NASA MEDLI researchers were alread ... more | .. |
 NASA shows first 'crime scene' photo of Mars landing About 36 hours after NASA landed its $2.5 billion rover on Mars, it released Tuesday what it jokingly dubbed a "crime scene" aerial shot of where the parachute, heat shield and vehicle came down. ... more | .. |
 A New Martian Landscape Comes Alive With Curiosity This picture of the Martian landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover puts a color view obtained by the rover in the context of a computer simulation derived from images acquired from orbiting spacecra ... more |
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As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future
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 New Mars Rover Beams Back Images Showing its Descent A few hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth. The 297 color, low-resolution images, ... more | .. |
 Curiosity Safely on Mars! Health Checks Begin With Curiosity now safely on the surface of the Red Planet after last night's spectacular entry, descent and landing in Gale Crater, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory begins its planned primary one-Mar ... more | .. |
Mars Science Lab Presents Mount Sharp This image taken by NASA's Curiosity shows what lies ahead for the rover - its main science target, Mount Sharp. The rover's shadow can be seen in the foreground, and the dark bands beyond are dunes ... more | .. |
 ESA spacecraft records crucial NASA signals from Mars This morning at 7:14 CEST, ESA's Mars Express acquired signals from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory as it delivered the car-sized Curiosity rover onto the Red planet's surface. ESA's New Norcia track ... more |
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 Curiosity Safely on Mars! Health Checks Begin With Curiosity now safely on the surface of the Red Planet after last night's spectacular entry, descent and landing in Gale Crater, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory begins its planned primary one-Mar ... more | .. |
 Curiosity ready to rove Mars Almost nine months after it was launched, Curiosity, NASA's latest rover, landed safely in the Gale Crater of Mars in the wee hours of August 6 CDT. The last seven minutes were particularly dramatic ... more | .. |
 NASA's Mars rover sends back stunning pictures After its first day on Mars, NASA's rover Monday sent back to Earth stunning images of its crater landing site and the mountain it aims to climb in the hunt for signs of life. ... more | .. |
NASA lands rover on Mars to seek signs of life 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 the surface of Mars. ... more |
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'Enormous step forward' as NASA lands rover on Mars 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 exploration of an alien world. ... more | .. |
 Next on Mars: 400 scientists on an alien road trip 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's landmark robotic mission on Mars. ... more | .. |
Joy after seven minutes of terror at NASA lab After years of hard work and seven minutes of terror, workers of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory here let out their tears of joy. ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Prepares for Curiosity's Arrival Opportunity has been roving at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. However, activity will be constrained for the period ahead as Opportunity prepares for the arrival of Curios ... more |
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 Are we alone? NASA's Mars rover aims to find out 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 out when it nears Mars's surface on Monday. ... more | .. |
 NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain 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 Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a ... more | .. |
 Mars landing 'unprecedented feat of technology': Obama US President Barack Obama hailed early Monday the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, calling it "an unprecedented feat of technology." ... more | .. |
'Enormous step forward' as NASA lands rover on Mars NASA on Sunday successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, marking the most ambitious attempt to reach Mars in history. ... more |
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