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in News, NASA, AmericaSpace, Mars, Space, Science, JPL, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars Exploration Rovers, Space Exploration, Exploration, Solar System, ResearchOpportunity Rover Moves to New Target on Steep Slope, Sees Swirling Dust Devil
Almost, but not quite … The Opportunity rover is now driving to another area on the hillside where it is currently located, after attempting to reach a difficult rock target. The rover wasn’t quite able to get close enough to the target to conduct further studies, after driving on the steepest slope ever encountered by any rover […] More
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Opportunity Explores Marathon Valley, Gets Ready for Upcoming Martian Winter
With the coming of autumn in the northern hemisphere, the necessary preparations for the upcoming winter’s frosty weather are high in the to-do list of most people living across the US, Europe and Asia. Yet, preparing for Jack Frost is not a necessity that’s limited to Earthly occupants only, with NASA’s Opportunity rover which has […] More
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Curiosity Sees Blue Sunset on Red Planet
After nearly three years of laboring on the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover has finally captured her first color sunset on Mars—in living blue color! And it’s a whopper. It looks for all the world not like an alien world, but rather like a majestic sunset back here on Earth, from […] More
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NASA Announces Journey to Mars Contest for Ideas to Enable Human Presence on Red Planet
Here’s your chance to influence how NASA will fulfill its agency-wide goal of sending humans to Mars in the 2030s for a sustained period of time. NASA has just announced a cash prize contest seeking input from the public for ideas on how to develop the infrastructure needed to establish a continuing human presence on […] More
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NASA Actively Working to ‘Save Opportunity and LRO’ From Budget Cutters’ Axe
Top NASA managers are actively working to save the long-lived but fiscally imperiled Opportunity Mars Exploration Rover (MER) and Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) missions from the budget cutters’ axe and “keep those missions moving,” after funding for both spacecraft was “zeroed out” under the White House’s recently rolled out NASA budget proposal for Fiscal Year […] More
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Curiosity Passes 10K Mark Roving to Next Science Destination at ‘Logan’s Run’
NASA’s intrepid Mars rovers continue setting spectacular records for roving across the fourth rock from the Sun, even as they make marvelous science observations on the rocks they pass virtually every Sol (day) they survive the harsh environmental extremes of the alien Red Planet in search of signatures of habitability and microbes past and present, […] More
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Curiosity Discovers Biochemically Accessible Nitrogen, Key Ingredient Needed for Martian Life
Based on data gathered by NASA’s Curiosity rover, researchers now report that the robot has discovered a local source of nitrogen that is “biochemically accessible” and is one of the key ingredients necessary to support the existence of life forms on ancient Mars, if they ever existed. Finding an indigenous source of nitrogen “has significant […] More
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Opportunity Arrives at Alien Gateway to Clay Minerals at Spirit of St. Louis Crater
Scientists leading the renowned expedition of NASA’s more-than-decade-old rover Opportunity are thrilled that the vehicle has arrived at “Spirit of St. Louis Crater”—the gateway to “alien scenes” of Marathon Valley and water-altered minerals that formed under environmental conditions conducive to support Martian microbial life forms, if they ever existed. “We go to the crater first […] More
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Watch Curiosity’s Scars on Mars Change Over Time
Virtually since the moment of the nail-biting touchdown of NASA’s Curiosity mega rover inside Gale some 2.5 years ago, the most powerful camera orbiting Mars has been keeping tabs on the blast zones and scars created by the impact of the rover and other components of the landing gear. The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment […] More
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Curiosity Back in Action, Discovers Beautiful Veins Heading up Martian Mountain
After about a two-week stand down to investigate the cause and consequences of a transient short circuit detected in the Curiosity rover’s arm-mounted drill mechanism, engineers determined it was safe to get the high-tech robot back in action and resume normal science and driving operations on the Red Planet. And soon after the car-sized robot […] More
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Opportunity Achieves Marathon Distance Feat at Majestic Mars Mountain Overlook
NASA’s long-lived Opportunity rover completed her first Red Planet marathon this Tuesday, March 24, a distance running to 26.219 miles (42.195 kilometers) and marking another in a lengthy string of unfathomable achievements when she crossed the finish line with a time of roughly 11 years and two months. Indeed it’s the first marathon run by […] More
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Whoa! Opportunity Discovers Matchless Purplish Rocks at Spectacular Mars Overlook
NASA’s long-lived Opportunity rover has discovered a matchless patch of purplish, blocky rocks at a spectacular mountaintop overlook that are unlike anything encountered before during her amazing 11-year science expedition across the alien terrain of the Red Planet. Opportunity found the intriguing colored rocks—“different from any ever measured before”—last month while driving to an overlook […] More
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