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Numerous Microorganisms Are Able to Obtain The Energy
Feb 27, 2014The Sun was once thought to provide energy for all life on Earth - meaning that life could not survive without it. In the 20th century, as astrobiologists began to explore the Earth's most remote and harsh environments, scientists began to ...
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Mars Rover and Its Recent Tracks From Driving in Gale Crater Appear in an Image
Jan 10, 2014NASA's Curiosity Mars rover and its recent tracks from driving in Gale Crater appear in an image taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter on Dec. 11, 2013. Excerpts from ...
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NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Made Its Third Short Trip This Week as Part of a Long Trek
Jul 16, 2013NASA's Mars rover Curiosity made its third short trip this week as part of a long trek that could take as much as a year. Curiosity, an SUV-sized rover carrying 10 scientific instruments, drove 135 feet on Tuesday. The first two drives ...
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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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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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The Rover Curiosity Has Found Complex Chemicals on The Surface of The Planet
Dec 31, 2012A week after downplaying reports of a major discovery on Mars, NASA on Monday announced that the rover Curiosity has found complex chemicals on the surface of the planet. The space agency noted that it has yet to find definitive evidence ...
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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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NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Successfully Tested Its Laser on Sunday
Dec 26, 2012Computerworld - 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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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 ...
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Picture Doing a Remote Software Upgrade
Dec 21, 2012Picture 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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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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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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NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Powers up Its Laser and Examines The Neighborhood
Aug 22, 2012NASA'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 ...
Tags: ChemCam, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mars, Laser