NASA today blunted reports of a potentially history-making discovery on Mars. NPR.com had reported last week that John Grotzinger, NASA's principal investigator for the Mars rover Curiosity mission, told it the rover's SAM instrument, ...
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Computerworld - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity successfully tested its laser on Sunday, blasting a fist-size Martian rock and analyzing its makeup. The rover's Chemistry and Camera instrument, dubbed the ChemCam, zapped the rock with 30 ...
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IDG News Service - One of the most complicated missions ever attempted by NASA, the landing of the one-ton rover Curiosity inside a crater on Mars after a 500 million kilometer journey, has apparently gone without a hitch. Curiosity ...
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After a month on the surface of Mars, NASA rover Curiosity has driven more than the length of a football field and has started gearing for some real scientific work. "We've been on the surface of Mars for about a month and Curiosity ...
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Picture doing a remote software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is a robotic rover sitting 350 million miles away, on the surface of Mars. That's what a team of programmers and engineers at NASA are dealing ...
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While the Mars Curiosity rover is the most complex machine NASA has ever sent to another planet, the computer that runs it is no more powerful than the one in your smartphone. The robotic rover, which landed in the Gale Crater on Mars ...
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The hacktivist collective Anonymous celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday by claiming it had stolen data from Symantec and ImageShack servers and had found a zero-day flaw in ZPanel. Fawkes was arrested over an alleged Nov. 5, 1605 botched ...
With NASA's super rover Curiosity successfully investigating Mars,the space agency announced plans to extend its work there and even send up another robotic rover. "The Obama administration is committed to a robust Mars exploration ...
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A year after NASA's Mars rover Curiosity blasted off on its 352-million-mile journey to the Red Planet,the nuclear-powered super rover has discovered evidence of ancient water flows and is studying the planet's atmosphere and surface. ...
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NASA scientists may be holding onto a"really interesting"discovery on Mars that could be historic. John Grotzinger,NASA's principal investigator for the Mars rover Curiosity mission,said last week that the agency is getting exciting ...
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The Mars rover Curiosity is on a mission to deliver what scientists hope will be groundbreaking scientific research that wouldn't be possible without robotics,according to a NASA chief engineer. "It's critical to this mission,"said Louise ...
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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity powers up its laser and examines the neighborhood. ChemCam in action After nearly two weeks on the Martian surface,the Mars Science Laboratory's Curiosity rover has used its ChemCam laser characterization ...
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Computerworld - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took its first, albeit short, drive on the Martian surface today and now scientists say it's just about ready to head out on its first real trek. "I'm pleased to report that Curiosity today had ...
Computerworld-NASA has decided to take a much deeper look inside Mars to try to figure out why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth. The space agency announced late on Monday that it will launch a new mission in 2016,named ...
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A short,low resolution video captured the final minutes of Mars rover Curiosity's descent onto the planet.At the beginning of the clip the 15-foot wide heat shield can be seen separating from the capsule carrying the rover. The images ...
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