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Humans Cannot Hope to Survive Life on Mars Without Plenty of Protection
Jan 20, 2014Humans cannot hope to survive life on Mars without plenty of protection from the surface radiation, freezing night temperatures and dust storms on the red planet. So they could be excused for marveling at humble Antarctic lichen that has ...
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Ten Years After NASA Landed Two Rovers on Mars on a 90-Day Mission
Jan 8, 2014Ten years after NASA landed two rovers on Mars on a 90-day mission, one rover is still exploring, and the project has generated hundreds of thousands of images from the Martian surface. Now the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum ...
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TriQuint Semiconductor Reflected on Its Role in Helping Land NASA's Curiosity
Jul 3, 2013RF front-end component maker and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA reflected on its role in helping land NASA's Curiosity rover safely on Mars as program managers say the mission is reaching a key ...
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NASA Is Sending Back Evidence That a Deep Crater on Mars Once Held a Groundwater-Fed Lake
Jan 24, 2013A NASA spacecraft is sending back evidence that a deep crater on Mars once held a groundwater-fed lake. The information is further evidence that the Red Planet has a history of water. Last fall, NASA scientists discovered evidence ...
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Rover Curiosity Wrapped up Its First Full Day and Is Functioning Perfectly
Dec 31, 2012The rover Curiosity wrapped up its first full day on the Martian surface and is functioning perfectly,NASA officials said Tuesday. "Curiosity is asleep right now getting ready for tomorrow,"said Michael Watkins,a mission systems manager ...
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Mars Curiosity Extends Its Robotic Arm
Dec 28, 2012NASA's Mars rover Curiosity on Monday flexed its 7-foot-long robotic arm for the first time since it landed on Mars. Monday's robotics maneuver had the rover checking its motors and joints by unstowing the arm, extending it using all five ...
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One of The Most Complicated Missions Ever Attempted by NASA
Dec 26, 2012IDG 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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The Curiosity Rover Found Evidence of a "Vigorous" Thousand-Year Water Flow on The Mars
Dec 25, 2012Less than two months into its mission, NASA scientists say the Curiosity rover has found evidence of a "vigorous" thousand-year water flow on the surface of Mars. This is exciting news for NASA scientists who sent the nuclear-powered, ...
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NASA's Control Room The Curiosity Rover Successfully Landed on Mars
Dec 24, 2012NASA's control room erupted with cheers as confirmation reached Earth that the Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars. Scientists and engineers hugged, sobbed and punched the air as the first images from the rover's cameras came down. ...
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The Mars Science Will Soon Finished All Being Well The Exploration Vehicle
Dec 24, 2012The Mars Science Laboratory space-probe successfully delivered the Curiosity rover onto the surface of Mars as scheduled on August 6th 2012, and all being well the exploration vehicle will soon be about its business. Curiosity's agenda ...
Tags: Mars Science Laboratory, ChemCam, Curiosity, Mars
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NASA Engineers Are Getting Ready for Two Big Tests of Their Robotic Rover
Dec 20, 2012With the Mars Curiosity rover's science instruments working well, NASA engineers are getting ready for two big tests of their robotic rover -- blasting a rock with a laser beam and getting the rover moving. Curiosity's first drive will be ...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity Is Ready to Make Its First Test Drive on Wednesday
Dec 19, 2012NASA's Mars Curiosity rover wiggled its wheels Tuesday and is ready to make its first -- if brief -- test drive on Wednesday. As part of a series of major tests that have been running over the past several days, the robotic rover on ...
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The Computer That Runs It Is No More Powerful Than The One in Your Smartphone
Dec 19, 2012While 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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Curiosity Is a Big Step Closer to Begin Its Mission
Dec 18, 2012With the Mars rover's software successfully upgraded, Curiosity is a big step closer to beginning its mission of finding out whether life has ever existed on Mars. Curiosity, NASA's super robotic rover, has been on the surface of Mars for ...
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With NASA's Super Rover Curiosity Successfully Investigating Mars
Dec 5, 2012With 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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