Topic: Mars Science Laboratory
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How will the Curiosity Mars rover phone home? (+video)
A pair of orbiters circling the Red Planet will help signals from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover on their long journey to Earth.
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MSL? EDL? A guide to NASA's Mars rover lingo. (+video)
If you plan on watching the scheduled touchdown of NASA's Mars rover on Sunday night, you had better read this so that you'll know what people are talking about.
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India plans 2014 Mars mission
Four years after a successful moon mission India now plans to send an unmanned probe to Mars's orbit.
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Search for life: Mars rover's target crater a 'geologist's paradise' (+video)
The ultimate destination of the NASA rover Curiosity is a gigantic mountain in a huge crater, where scientists will be looking for signs of life. But geologists are also excited for the possibilities right where the rover lands.
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NASA's high stakes Mars rover landing (+video)
Excitement builds up for Sunday's scheduled touchdown of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, the most complex robotic explorer ever launched.
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Curiosity Mars rover could offer stunning views of Red Planet (+video)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover contains the most advanced robotic cameras ever sent to Mars. If Curiosity lands successfully, it could send back never-before-seen images from the Martian surface.
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Will NASA's $2.5 billion Mars rover crash on Sunday? (+video)
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover faces a terrifying seven-minute plunge through the Red Planet's atmosphere using a first-of-its-kind landing system involving a supersonic parachute and a 'sky-crane' that will lower the rover to the Martian surface.
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Stephen Colbert offers a tip of the hat to NASA's Mars Rover (+video)
NASA administrator and veteran astronaut John Grunsfeld appeared on the Colbert Report on Wednesday, where he discussed the planned landing of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Sunday night.
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Why Mars rover will be blasting its heat ray as it searches for life
The Mars rover Curiosity, which is due on the Red Planet next week, is outfitted with an infrared laser and telescope package called ChemCam that will vaporize bits of rock to study its chemical makeup.
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Mars rover: Scientists target huge crater in the search for signs of life (+video)
NASA's Curiosity probe is scheduled to make landfall on Mars early Monday. If the nail-biter landing goes according to plan, the $2.5 billion probe will be looking in a massive crater for conditions that may have once hosted life.
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Everything you need to know about the Mars rover Curiosity (+video)
How does the rover get its power for roving? How many cameras does it have? Here are the essential facts about Curiosity, NASA's Mars rover that is scheduled to land on the Red Planet on Sunday night.
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Where to watch Curiosity's Mars landing? Times Square.
It's not New Year's Eve, but just beneath the ball's usual spot sits a screen which will feature NASA's coverage of the landing of its Mars probe, Curiosity, on Sunday night. Other sites around the country will also provide viewings of the landing.
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Five essential facts about NASA's Mars Curiosity rover (+video)
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is the most sophisticated robot ever sent to another world. Here are five facts about NASA's most audacious robotic mission yet.
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Mars rover 'hardest NASA robotic mission ever attempted,' says NASA (+video)
At 10:30 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5, the one-ton, $2.5 billion Curiosity rover is scheduled to touch down on Mars, in what experts are calling a risky landing.
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Mars Curiosity rover to seek signs of life on Red Planet (+video)
In a week, if the landing goes as planned, NASA's Mars Curiosity rover will be looking for signs of methane and other organic compounds in the atmosphere and the soil, which could turn up new clues in the search for life there.
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NASA Curiosity rover to seek water on Mars (+video)
If NASA's Curiosity Mars rover successfully lands on Sunday, it will use a neutron detector to scan for hydrogen below the Red Planet's surface.
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NASA promotes new rover landing with synthetic 'Mars rocks'
NASA is sending synthetic 'Martian' rocks to eight cities in its national 'Get Curious' campaign to promote the Curiosity Mars Rover, which is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on Aug. 6.
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What will NASA's Mars rover do when it gets there? (+video)
If NASA's Mars Curiosity rover lands successfully, it will look for signs of habitability. The rover will also keep an eye on the weather.
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Odyssey successfully positioned for new Mars Rover's landing, NASA says
NASA announced the 11-year-old Mars Odyssey, which recently suffered a malfunction, has been successfully positioned to provide confirmation of Curiosity's August 5 landing.
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NASA's Curiosity rover to explore bizarre Martian mountain (+video)
The three-mile-tall Mount Sharp is an inviting target for investigation by NASA's one-ton Mars rover, which is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on Aug. 5.
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Mars rover's crazy-looking landing plan is technically sound, says NASA (+video)
NASA scientists say that the Mars Curiosity rover's audacious August 5 landing plan, which involves a hypersonic parachute, retrorockets, and a hovering 'sky crane' system is exactly what is needed for the $2.5 billion rover.
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Why is NASA's latest Mars Rover biggest and best yet? (+video)
NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover, expected to land on the Red planet in three weeks, is NASA's most advanced robotic mission yet.
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NASA hopes Mars rover landing will be 'grand and profound'
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet on August 6, is the most advanced robot ever sent to another world.
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Spacecraft glitch means NASA will have to wait to learn if Mars rover lands safely (+video)
A glitch in a spacecraft orbiting Mars will make for a blind landing of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, which is scheduled to touch down on the Red Planet next month.
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Will NASA's Mars rover land safely? Glitch could delay news. (+video)
NASA's Curiosity rover is due to touch down on the Martian surface on August 5, but a malfunction in another NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will mean we'll all have to wait longer to find out if the landing is successful.
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