Tag Archives: Rover

  • News Mars Rocks Could Have Supported Life

    NASA: Yes, Mars Could Have Hosted Life

    Curiosity, humanity’s most powerful rover to land on Mars, has made a startling discovery: Conditions that could have supported life once existed there.

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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.

  • News Mars Rover's Self Portrait

    Mars rover captures nearby rocket ‘footprint’

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

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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: Curiosity lands on Mars

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

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog CuriosityScheduledLanding

    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.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog CuriosityScheduledLanding

    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.

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog CuriosityScheduledLanding

    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).

  • News / Weather / Weather Blog NASA artist concept of Curiosity

    SPACE: Mars rover Curiosity closing in on landing site

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