Tag Archives: Mars

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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.
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  NASA: Curiosity course maneuver successful – Mars Science Laboratory begins its final approach

  Mars rover Curiosity is scheduled to land at 1:61 a.m. EDT August 6.
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  NASA: Mars marathon for rover Opportunity

  More than 8 years after landing on Mars, rover Opportunity is still running. Mission planners say the robot is nearing completion of a full marathon, the first ever long-distance race on an alien planet.
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  NASA: Curiosity nears daring landing on Mars

  Curiosity is scheduled to land at approximately 10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5 (1:31 a.m. EDT on Aug. 6).
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  The next best thing to actually being on Mars

  A new, stunning picture of the Red Planet has been released by NASA.
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  SPACE: Mars rover Curiosity closing in on landing site

  Smaller site poses both the potential for faster research, but also an increased landing hazard.