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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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NASA's Rover Curiosity Has Drilled Into a Rock on Mars for Just The Second Time
May 24, 2013NASA's rover Curiosity has drilled into a rock on Mars for just the second time during its mission. Curiosity on Sunday used its robotic arm to drill into a rock dubbed "Cumberland" to collect a powdered sample from inside the rock that ...
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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, ...
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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 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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NASA's Rover Curiosity Has Safely Landed on Mars,It's Time for The Robot to Get to Work
Jan 4, 2013Computerworld-Now that NASA's rover Curiosity has safely landed on Mars,it's time for the robot to get to work. And that's exactly what NASA engineers say is happening today. "The surface mission of Curiosity has now begun,"Michael ...
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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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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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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 ...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Is Set to Begin a Very Busy Weekend
Dec 28, 2012NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is set to begin a very busy weekend. The rover is slated to scoop up its first sample of Martian soil on Saturday, NASA reported. Curiosity on Wednesday came across a sandy area that NASA scientists decided ...
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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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