Topic: Mars Science Laboratory
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Curiosity Mars rover suffers another glitch, remains in safe mode
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has put its scientific exploration on hold while it deals with a minor software problem.
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Rover Curiosity may resume operation on Mars soon
NASA said that its Mars rover Curiosity, which halted its exploration on the Red Planet last Thursday due to a memory malfunction, might get back to work this weekend.
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Giant leap in race to replace space shuttle? Dream Chaser gets big boost.
Sierra Nevada Corp., which is designing a mini space shuttle called the Dream Chaser, announced that it's joining forces with Lockheed Martin – heavy-hitter in aerospace.
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For Mars rover Curiosity, at last, it's dinnertime. On the menu: dirt.
It's period of painstaking preparations over, the Mars rover Curiosity has at long last ingested a sample of soil for analysis by its on-board chemistry lab. That's what it came 352 million miles for.
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What's on Mars? Evidence of water (+video)
On Thursday, NASA's Mars Curiosity rover identified what are believed to be rocks moved by water that once flowed on the Red Planet. Curiosity's further exploration is hoped to determine whether Mars was once inhabited by microorganisms.
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Curiosity rover makes contact with a Mars rock named 'Jake'
The next stop for the Mars rover: an intriguing mystery rock in the Mars Yellowknife sector that has the ability to retain daytime heat long into the night.
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Mini-Great Pyramid of Giza on Mars intrigues Curiosity rover team
A small, pyramid-like rock about 1,000 feet from the Curiosity rover's landing site on Mars appears to present the perfect opportunity for scientists to test how two key instruments work together.
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Will NASA's Mars rover find signs of life? A Q&A with a Curiosity astrobiologist.
NASA's Danny Glavin is among those leading the search for amino acids and nucleobases on the surface of Mars.
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Mars rover Curiosity to go for first drive Weds. (+video)
Engineers successfully tested the rover's steering abilities on Monday, and now they're ready to turn its six wheels for the first time since Curiosity landed on Mars on Aug. 5, officials announced today.
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Mars rover ramps up for its first test drive (+video)
NASA's Curiosity rover has aced its first tests on Mars – twist wheel to the left, twist wheel to the right, extend robotic arm, pull it back – now it's heading out for a (nearly) 10-foot test drive.
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Will America kill the curiosity that sent the rover to Mars?
The landing of the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity on Mars marks a historic triumph for NASA, space exploration, and American innovation. But the endangered state of curiosity-driven basic research endangers America’s capacity for future innovations.
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What Curiosity rover is up to next: Martian target practice (+video)
Curiosity rover is nearing the moment when it will roll its wheels for the first time. But first, there are more tests, including a first zap of a distant rock with ChemCam.
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NASA: Mars rover Curiosity brain surgery complete (+video)
After a four-day software upgrade, NASA's Curiosity is ready to continue its 2-year search for Martian microbes. In about a week, the rover will go for its first test drive. Once it begins moving, it will be able to travel about the length of a football field daily.
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What will future Mars missions look like?
Following the successful landing of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, amid deep budget cuts the agency is drafting a 20-year plan for the Red Planet.
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President Obama to congratulate Curiosity Mars rover team
The mission control team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who last week successfully landed the one-ton Curiosity Mars rover on the Red Planet, are to get a congratulatory phone call from President Obama.
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Hey, is that Mars or the Mojave in NASA rover's photo?
One of the first images from the camera atop the rover Curiosity's mast shows a Mars landscape that scientists called remarkably Earth-like, as if NASA 'put a rover out in the Mojave Desert.'
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Curiosity rover sends 3-D images of Martian surface
Using its stereoscopic navigation cameras, NASA's new Mars rover has beamed to Earth its first 3-D photos of Mars.
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NASA showered with praise over Curiosity Mars rover landing
NASA is exulting in its latest success: A one-ton robotic science lab safely deposited on the surface of Mars via never-before-attempted entry and descent maneuvers.
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First images from Mars rover reveal unexplored landscape
After a successful landing, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is beaming back images of its landing site, the Red Planet's Gale crater.
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President Obama hails NASA's Curiosity Mars rover landing
The president called the daring landing of the one-ton rover on the Red Planet and 'unprecedented feat of technology.'
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NASA's Mars rover makes daring touchdown on Red Planet (+video)
An ambitious maneuver involving an enormous supersonic parachute and a rocket-powered sky crane safely delivered the one-ton, $2.5 billion dollar robot to the surface of Mars.
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As rover Curiosity lands, Mars exploration program fights for its life (+video)
The pinpoint landing of the rover Curiosity on Mars early Monday went as planned, to the jubilation of NASA scientists. But the budget for the Mars program is on the chopping block, as Washington grapples with debt and deficit.
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NASA's Mars program riding on a rover heading for touch down
The one-ton Mars rover named Curiosity is set to land on the red planet at around 1:31 am Eastern time.
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Mars mission: Rover Curiosity poised to enter red planet's atmosphere
At mission control, nothing to do now but watch and wait, as the rover and its descent module near Mars' atmosphere and begin to feel the pull of gravity. So far, everything is on track for early-Monday landing.
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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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