Tag Archives: Curiosity

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    NASA: A comet may have a close encounter with Mars

    There is a small chance that Comet 2013 A1 will strike Mars in October 2014.

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    NASA: Curiosity Mars Rover brush at work

    Dust Removal Tool (DRT) cleared for clearing by NASA.

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    Mars rover Curiosity just got hipper

    “Reaching for the Stars” by Will.I.Am was the first song to make an interplanetary musical trip.

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    NASA: Curiosity rover returns voice recording and telephoto views from Mars

    NASA’s Mars Curiosity has debuted the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and back.

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    Mars rover captures nearby rocket ‘footprint’

    NEW: Images are used to program the rover for the next day, controller says

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    Boy’s name goes to Mars

    10-year-old’s name is on NASA’s Curiosity Rover

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    NASA: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spots Curiosity and scattered spacecraft pieces

    High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera captured this image about 24 hours after Curiosity landed.

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    NASA: New Mars Rover beams back images showing its descent

    A select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager were beamed back to Earth. The 297 color, low-resolution images, provide a glimpse of the rover’s descent into Gale Crater.

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    NASA: First color image of the Martian landscape returned from Curiosity

    The image shows the north wall and rim of Gale Crater, where Curiosity landed early Monday morning.

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    NASA: Curiosity lands on Mars

    Car-Size rover lands safely in Gale Crater beside 3-mile-tall Martian mountain.

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    NASA Mars Rover Curiosity will land early Monday

    Dr. Tyler Nordgren, one of the scientists working on the Curiosity project, gives us insight into the newest generation of the Mars Rover.

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    NASA: Mars landing sky show

    Go outside after sunset on August 5th and look west for a triangle of first-magnitude lights. The vertices are Mars, Saturn, and Spica.