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Opportunity seeks energy-favorable locations to recharge during winter![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 01, 2017 Opportunity is exploring "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour crater as mission planners prepare to park the rover for a winter layover. Winter substainally constrains the energy levels of the rover, such that the program has been exercising the strategy of driving the rover from one energy-favorable "lily pad" to the next. These lily pads are locations where the terrain is tilted sufficiently to the north to maximize the Sun illumination on the rover's solar panels. Even ... read more |
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![]() Washington (UPI) Aug 30, 2017 Bowie wasn't lying about Ziggy's bandmates - there are spiders from Mars. Sort of. ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 17, 2017 This month, movements of the planets will put Mars almost directly behind the sun, from Earth's perspective, causing curtailed communications between Earth and Mars. NASA will refrain from sen ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Jul 14, 2017 A dried-out river valley with numerous tributaries is seen in this recent view of the Red Planet captured by ESA's Mars Express. This section of the Libya Montes region, which sits on the equator a ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2017 Opportunity is in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has arrived at the location within the valley where she will spend the approximately three-week solar conjuncti ... more |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 13, 2017 The car-size NASA rover on a Martian mountain, Curiosity, has begun its long-anticipated study of an iron-bearing ridge forming a distinctive layer on the mountain's slope. Since before Curios ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 Earlier this month, radio dishes from three deep-space networks combined to catch faint 'survival' whispers from one of ESA's Mars orbiters, underlining the value of international collaboration for ... more ![]() ![]() Salt Lake City UT (SPX) Aug 31, 2017 Brigham Young University researchers have created a miniaturized, portable version of a tool now capable of analyzing Mars' atmosphere - and that's just one of its myriad possible uses. For de ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 28, 2017 Opportunity is located in "Perseverance Valley" on the west rim of Endeavour Crater. The rover has been staying in place collecting extensive Panoramic Camera (Pancam) stereo panoramas. ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 29, 2017 Preparation of NASA's next spacecraft to Mars, InSight, has ramped up this summer, on course for launch next May from Vandenberg Air Force Base in central California - the first interplanetary launc ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 23, 2017 As the energetic particles of the solar wind speed across interplanetary space, their motion is modified by objects in their path. A study, based on data from ESA's Mars Express orbiter, has thrown ... more |
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![]() ![]() Mars weather: 'Cloudy, chance of nighttime snowstorm' ![]() ![]() Washington DC (SPX) Aug 21, 2017 NASA's Mars 2020 mission, which will look for signs of past life on Mars, will use smart methods originally developed to find the oldest life on Earth, according the mission's Deputy Project Scienti ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 17, 2017 Ten spacecraft, from ESA's Venus Express to NASA's Voyager-2, felt the effect of a solar eruption as it washed through the Solar System while three other satellites watched, providing a unique persp ... more ![]() ![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 14, 2017 An ancient mountain range on Mars preserves a complex volcanic and tectonic past imprinted with signs of water and ice interactions. The images, taken on 9 April by the high-resolution stereo ... more ![]() ![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 14, 2017 Opportunity is located in Perseverance Valley on the west rim of Endeavour crater and has resumed normal science activities post-conjunction. Taking advantage of the position through conjuncti ... more |
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![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 22, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Analysis of a 'rusty' lunar rock suggests the moon's interior is dry ![]() ![]() Roscosmos Approves Luna-25 Space Station Model in Moon Exploration Project ![]() ![]() Moon's magnetic field lasted far longer than once believed |
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![]() Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space ![]() ![]() Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration ![]() ![]() ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
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![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Close encounters of the stellar kind ![]() ![]() House-Sized Near-Earth Objects Rarer Than We Thought ![]() ![]() Largest asteroid in a century to whiz by Sept 1 |
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![]() Washington DC (SPX) Sep 04, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() To Pluto and beyond ![]() ![]() New Horizons Video Soars over Pluto's Majestic Mountains and Icy Plains ![]() ![]() Juno spots Jupiter's Great Red Spot |
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![]() Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 05, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Saturn Plunge Nears for Cassini Spacecraft ![]() ![]() NASA Announces Cassini End-of-Mission Activities ![]() ![]() Cassini to begin final five orbits around Saturn |
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![]() Essex, UK (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Pinpointing the sources of trans-Pacific dust ![]() ![]() Nickel key to Earth's magnetic field, research shows ![]() ![]() Russian scientists invent device allowing them to sense kilometers into Earth |
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![]() Berlin (AFP) Sept 5, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() ESA retrieves NASA astronauts with new procedure in wake of hurricane ![]() ![]() Record-breaking NASA astronaut comes back to Earth ![]() ![]() Voyager Spacecraft: 40 Years of Solar System Discoveries |
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![]() Boston MA (SPX) Sep 01, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() NASA Team Passes Major Technological Milestone for Characterizing Exoplanets ![]() ![]() Hubble delivers first hints of possible water content of TRAPPIST-1 planets ![]() ![]() X-ray footprinting solves mystery of metal-breathing protein |
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![]() Washington (AFNS) Sep 01, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() TED: Phones and drones transforming healthcare ![]() ![]() Lockheed pairs drone with counter-UAS system ![]() ![]() Drones relay RFID signals for inventory control |
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![]() Greenbelt MD (SPX) Aug 30, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Space-inspired Star Storm to premiere next month ![]() ![]() Charleston C-17 flies on "dark side of the moon" ![]() ![]() NASA, ESA spacecraft track solar storm through space |
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![]() Moscow (Sputnik) Sep 05, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() NASA Concludes Summer of Testing with Fifth Flight Controller Hot Fire ![]() ![]() SpaceX tests first stage of 'world's most powerful rocket' ![]() ![]() Kacific selects SpaceX to provide launch service |
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![]() Charlottesville VA (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Magnetic fields in distant galaxy are new piece of cosmic puzzle ![]() ![]() Astronomers Let Gaseous Discs Tiltand Shrink in Virtual Wind Tunnel ![]() ![]() ALMA finds huge hidden reservoirs of turbulent gas in distant galaxies |
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![]() Paris (ESA) Aug 28, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() MSU gravitational physicist receives NASA award to explore extreme gravity and the universe ![]() ![]() First look at gravitational dance that drives stellar formation ![]() ![]() Telescope for detecting optical signals from gravitational waves launched |
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![]() Toronto, Canada (SPX) Aug 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Researchers propose how the universe became filled with light ![]() ![]() Black hole models contradicted by hands-on tests at Sandia's Z machine ![]() ![]() Scientists 'excited' by observations suggesting formation scenarios |
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![]() (UPI) Aug 29, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Voice assistants promise a light-fingered future ![]() ![]() New robot rolls with the rules of pedestrian conduct ![]() ![]() Illinois researchers develop origami-inspired robot |
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![]() Washington DC (Sputnik) Aug 31, 2017 ![]() ![]() ![]() Kuaizhou-11 to send six satellites into space ![]() ![]() Russia, China May Sign 5-Year Agreement on Joint Space Exploration ![]() ![]() ESA and Chinese astronauts train together |
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