News tagged with mars science
Next NASA Mars Mission Rescheduled for 2011
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 04, 2008 |
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will launch two years later than previously planned, in the fall of 2011. The mission will send a next-generation rover with unprecedented research tools to study the early environmental ...
Site List Narrows For NASA's Next Mars Landing
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Nov 20, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory.
NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars Rover
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 18, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. NASA, in cooperation with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' movie WALL-E from Pixar Animation ...
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NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Resumes Observations
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers are receiving new science data from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter after the spacecraft's six science instruments resumed observations today.
CERN Colour X-ray Technology Set to Save Lives
Dec 15, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Medical studies are soon to start with the MARS scanner, a revolutionary CT scanner developed by the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. The scanner, which incorporates technology developed at the world's ...
Scientist uncovers relics of ancient cosmos
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 14, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Manchester scientist, working as part of an international team, has uncovered an unexpectedly rich trove of relicts from the ancient cosmos.
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Spacecraft Out of Safe Mode
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Dec 09, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter today has been taken out of the precautionary 'safe mode' it had been in since August.
Life on Mars theory boosted by new methane study
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 08, 2009 |
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Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published tomorrow in Earth an ...
NRL's MISSE7 launched aboard STS-129
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Dec 07, 2009 |
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The Materials on the International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) 7, designed and built by the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), launched aboard STS-129 on November, 16, for transport to the International ...
Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery
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Dec 03, 2009 |
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Homer's Iliad tells the story of Troy, a city besieged by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Today, a lone robot sits besieged in the sands of Troy while engineers and scientists plot its escape.
Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby
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Dec 01, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's ...
Superior Super Earths
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Nov 30, 2009 |
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Super Earths are named for their size, but these planets - which range from about 2 to 10 Earth masses - could be superior to the Earth when it comes to sustaining life. They could also provide an answer to ...
Rat pack: Scientists warming up to African rodent
Nov 28, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Naked mole rats don't get cancer. They shrug off brushes with acid and age so well, some are older than the college-aged researchers handling them.
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