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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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Curiosity Put Itself Into Safe Mode on Saturday After a Software Bug
Mar 19, 2013After a computer glitch sidelined NASA's Mars rover Curiosity late last month, another problem has it down again. NASA reported that Curiosity put itself into safe mode on Saturday after a software bug caused a command file to fail a ...
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NASA Mars Rover Curiosity Is Running Again After Engineers
Mar 12, 2013The NASA Mars rover Curiosity is running again after engineers put it to sleep for a day this week to protect it from a powerful solar storm. On Tuesday, the sun unleashed what appeared to be a major blast of radiation and solar wind, ...
Tags: NASA Mars, solar storm, electrical charge
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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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A Computer Problem Has Forced NASA Scientists to Put The Rover Into Safe Mode
Mar 7, 2013A computer problem onboard the Mars rover Curiosity has forced NASA scientists to put the rover into safe mode while they try to bring a backup system online and try to figure out what is wrong with the main computer. "We are doing ...
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NASA's Mars Rover Has Discovered That Martian Soil Is an Awfully Lot Like Hawaiian Land
Jan 4, 2013In initial tests, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has discovered that Martian soil is an awfully lot like Hawaiian sand. The super rover, which has been working on Mars since this past August, ran its first soil samples over the past few ...
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NASA's Rover Curiosity Searched for The Next Route to Travel on Mars
Dec 31, 2012NASA's rover Curiosity is set to spend the next several days using the camera on its mast in a search for the next route to travel on Mars. Scientists are already on the lookout for a rock on the surface of Mars to try out the rover's ...
Tags: NASA, Mars, rover Curiosity, Thanksgiving Mission
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Picture Doing a Software Upgrade
Dec 28, 2012Picture doing a software upgrade. Now picture doing it when the machine you're upgrading is sitting 156 million miles away. And now picture tweaking that software every day. That's what programmers and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion ...
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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 Today Blunted Reports of a Potentially History-Making Discovery on Mars
Dec 26, 2012NASA 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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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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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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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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Anonymous Celebrated Guy Fawkes Day on Monday
Dec 17, 2012The 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 ...
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A Year After NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity Blasted off on Its 352-Million-Mile Journey
Nov 26, 2012A 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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