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Curiosity rover set for first test drivePasadena, Calif. (UPI) Aug 22, 2012 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. The 1-ton robotic, car-size rover acknowledged receipt of the instructions for a slow, 30-minute drive that will take the six-wheel nuclear-powered vehicle about 10 feet ahead of where it landed in Gale Crater Aug. 6, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory said. The rover is then to stop, turn its wheels to the right and then back up in a 90 ... read more |
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 New NASA Mission to Take First Look Deep Inside Mars 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 differently from Earth as one of our solar s ... more | .. |
 Fantastic Phobos 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 passed just 100 km by. This vie ... more | .. |
 Russian Mars Water Sniffer Goes Online 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 the rover's path, was activated on Frida ... more | .. |
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 Where Will Curiosity Go First? 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 its breath. Now, mission scientists are ... more | .. |
 Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock 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 "Coronation." The mission's Chemistry a ... more | .. |
 NASA wants to measure 'Marsquakes' 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 better look at what's happening beneath the Red Planet's surface. ... more | .. |
 Orbiter Views New Mars Rover In Color 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 is beginning to investigate. Operator ... more |
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 Mars rover takes 'cool' detour: NASA 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. ... more | .. |
 How a Mars Sample Return Mission Can Go Electric 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 of $5 billion to $10 billion. That roun ... more | .. |
Curiosity Finds Humor on Mars 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 took off. Ever since the Mars Sci ... more | .. |
 Opportunity is on the Move Again 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 set of Alpha Particle X-ray Spe ... more |
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 Microsemi Space Solutions On Board Historic Mars Rover Mission Microsemi, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, has extended its congratulations to NASA and the Jet Propulsion Lab (JPL) for ... more | .. |
India to launch Mars mission: PM 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 scheduled to begin late next year. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future
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  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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
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 | .. |
 Obama to NASA experts: 'Let me know if you find Martians' 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. ... 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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 |
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