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Curiosity Has a Photo DayPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2012 Curiosity took a sol off from driving and spent time during the mission's Sol 25, on Aug. 31, 2012, taking images and collecting environmental monitoring data. Imaging tasks for the sol included Navigation Camera sky observations to check for clouds, and Mast Camera imaging of the terrain eastward where the rover will be driving during the next few sols. In addition, the Mast Camera was used for taking a 360-degree panorama from the location that Curiosity reached by its Sol 24 drive. Sol 25 ... read more |
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  Moles, crabs and Moon dust: DLR at the ILA Space Pavilion Satellites with electric propulsion, a 'mole' for exploring the Martian subsurface, a mobile robot that moves sideways like a crab, a pinch of Moon dust and a hands-on medical experiment where test ... more | .. |
 Marks of Laser Exam on Martian Soil The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its laser to examine side-by-side points in a target patch of soil, leaving the marks apparent in this before-and-af ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Exceeds 35 Kilometers of Driving! Opportunity has exceeded over 35 kilometers (21.75 miles) of odometry! The rover is moving south along the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater surveying exposed outcrop in ... more | .. |
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 Opportunity Drives And Images Rock Outcrop Opportunity is moving south along the inboard edge of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. On Sol 3044 (Aug. 16, 2012), the rover drove just over 131 feet (40 meters) staying close to the ... more | .. |
 NASA Curiosity Rover Begins Eastbound Trek on Martian Surface NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has set off from its landing vicinity on a trek to a science destination about a quarter mile (400 meters) away, where it may begin using its drill. The rover drove eastw ... more | .. |
 Rover Leaves Tracks in Morse Code NASA's Curiosity rover took its first test stroll Wednesday Aug. 22, 2012, and beamed back pictures of its accomplishment in the form of track marks in the Martian soil. Careful inspection of the tr ... more | .. |
  Outside View: Artificial Intelligence In the NASA video called "Seven Minutes of Terror," which famously went viral over the last month, Tom Rivellini, one of the engineers in charge of the landing, outlines its eye-popping difficulty. ... more |
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 Curiosity Rover Plays First Song Transmitted from Another Planet For the first time in history, a recorded song has been beamed back to Earth from another planet. Students, special guests and news media gathered at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Ca ... more | .. |
 Mars suitable for colonization Mars will become a major target for human space explorers in the next 50 years, experts from the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation say. According to Energia's President and Chief Designer Vitaly ... more | .. |
 NASA's Mars rover heads east, driving 'beautifully' NASA's Curiosity rover has begun its first major drive across the surface of Mars, handling "beautifully" as it prepares to start some serious scientific work, the US space agency said Wednesday. ... more | .. |
 Curiosity In It for the Long Haul In recent days, Curiosity has accomplished a number of firsts, including the first use of its laser to zap a nearby rock and its first short drive. Many more such firsts lie ahead. But as the rover ... more |
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 NASA likens Mars rover to Armstrong lunar landmark NASA beamed back more spectacular pictures from Mars on Monday - and a first voice message - likening it to the lunar landmark led by Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon who died last week. ... more | .. |
 Chemcam Laser First Analyzes Yield Beautiful Results Members of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover ChemCam team, including Los Alamos National Laboratory scientists, squeezed in a little extra target practice after zapping the first fist-size ... more | .. |
 NASA selects DLR experiment for InSight mission to Mars After the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover, NASA has selected one more lander mission to Mars. The InSight mission will reach Mars in September 2016, after a six-mon ... more | .. |
 Student Commands Mars Rover Children are often mystified by remote control cars and how they can control them with a device while standing several feet away from them. This past week, Chris Tate was mystified by the same power ... more |
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As world burns, India's Amitav Ghosh writes for the future
Fire on Ice: The Arctic's Changing Fire Regime
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 Lockheed Martin to Build Spacecraft for Insight Mars Lander An exciting and novel mission to Mars has been selected as NASA's next Discovery mission. The Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport (InSight) mission, led by ... more | .. |
 First Words of Safe Landing on Mars - Tango Delta Nominal 10:32 p.m. on the evening of Aug. 5 was turning out to be one long minute for Steve Sell. Of course, the previous six had been significantly protracted as well. When added together, the entry, desce ... more | .. |
NASA's Mars rover makes first test drive 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 science fiction author Ray Bradbury. ... more | .. |
 NASA Mars Rover Begins Driving at Bradbury Landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, that scientists have named for the late author Ray Bradbury. Making its first movement on the Martian surface, Curiosity's drive ... more |
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 New Mars mission to take first look at what's going on deep inside the Red Planet A UK Space Agency-funded instrument, designed to investigate the interior structure and processes of Mars, has been selected to travel to the Red Planet on NASA's newly announced InSight mission. Th ... more | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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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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 | .. |
Curiosity rover set for first test drive 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. ... 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 |
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 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 | .. |
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 |
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