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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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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's Mars Rover Curiosity Is out of Safe Mode and Back on Active Status
Mar 7, 2013NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is out of safe mode and back on active status after computer trouble had sidelined the vehicle for nearly a week. The space agency reported that Curiosity is now running on its backup computer system, known as ...
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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 ...
Tags: NASA, Curiosity Rover, Mars, organic instrument
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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's Newest and Largest Robotic Rover Will Use a Supersonic Parachute
Dec 20, 2012When NASA's newest and largest robotic rover lands on Mars early Monday morning, it will use a supersonic parachute, a tether and rockets to safely alight 350 million miles from home. Seven minutes will elapse between the time the ...
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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 ...
Tags: NASA, Mars exploration program, robotic rover, Curiosity
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Curiosity Successfully Landed on Mars Earlier This Month
Aug 22, 2012NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab(JPL)used static code analysis from Coverity to maximise the quality of the code running on the Curiosity rover. Curiosity successfully landed on Mars earlier this month.The developers at JPL used a suite of ...
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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
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It Took Eight Months to Land The Mars Rover, a Robot Called Curiosity
Aug 9, 2012Simulating the Mars mission Computational curiosity Landing system IT has been key to successfully landing the rover robot Curiosity, on Mars earlier this week. Mars missions in the past have not had a great track record. But the landing ...
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Emcore Corp of Albuquerque Has Been Awarded a Solar Panel Manufacturing Contract
May 17, 2012Emcore Corp of Albuquerque,NM,USA,which makes components and subsystems for the fiber-optic and solar power markets,has been awarded a solar panel manufacturing contract by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory(JPL)for its Soil Moisture Active ...
Tags: Emcore, Solar panels, JPL, multi-junction solar cells