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NASA Announces Journey to Mars Contest for Ideas to Enable Human Presence on Red Planet
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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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Dawn Divulges Diverse Terrain in First Color Map of Ceres and North Pole View
Scientists spearheading the Dawn mission to dwarf planet Ceres have published the first color map of the mysterious world since the NASA probe successfully arrived in orbit on March 6. The color map from Dawn reveals a highly diverse body that was active in the past and may still be active today, researchers revealed when […] 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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Curiosity Snaps Expansive Selfie, Sets Next Drill Campaign
The car-sized Curiosity rover has snapped a sweeping selfie encompassing the spectacular alien terrain of the Red Planet, where she has spent the past five months wandering, exploring, and working to unravel the mysteries of the planet’s past and assess ancient habitable environments. This latest selfie from Curiosity was just released by NASA on Feb. 24 and […] More
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Curiosity Spied From Orbit by Mountain Drilling Base Where Ancient Water Flowed on Mars
The most powerful “eyes” above Mars sailing aboard one of NASA’s Red Planet orbiters has captured a majestic new view of NASA’s car-sized Curiosity rover at work below in the region where she is currently surveying spectacular other worldly terrain and drilling into sedimentary rock outcrops altered by ancient Martian water. The High Resolution Imaging […] More
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Rosetta Captures Spectacular Comet Jets Blasting Away Ahead of Valentine’s Day Encounter
Europe’s Rosetta spacecraft has captured the most spectacular imagery yet of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko spewing forth gas and dust during what the team dubbed “The Last Waltz” as the frigid celestial body inexorably heats up, and the probe was successfully retargeted for a super-close encounter on Valentine’s Day. More
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Curiosity Drilling at Mars Mountain Base Indicates Water Alteration
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover has taken a second “bite” out of the base layer of the Martian mountain she is currently investigating, and found that it’s been altered by water that’s a different flavor and more acidic than the first “bite.” More
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Killing Opportunity: Humans Do What Mars Can’t
For the second year running, the Obama Administration is literally proposing to “Kill Opportunity” and stop NASA’s world-renowned Mars Exploration Rover “dead in its tracks” after an astounding 11 years of roving across Martian plains, craters, and mountains where no man or robot has gone before—proving that the Red Planet was indeed once habitable. Under the […] More
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Rosetta Reveals Cracked Comet Covered With Dust and Spewing Pits
Scientists leading Europe’s Rosetta orbiter mission have discovered a wondrous array of rugged surface terrain, mysterious cracks, and jet spewing pits at the dust covered Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, following the spacecraft’s arrival on Aug. 6, 2014, after a decade-long interplanetary journey of some 500 million kilometers (300 million miles) from Earth. Rosetta is on a mission […] More