News tagged with rover
Mars rover Opportunity studying new surroundings (Update)
The Mars rover Opportunity is snapping pictures like a tourist since arriving at its latest crater destination, much to the delight of scientists many millions of miles away.
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Sep 01, 2011 |
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New Mars rover snapshots capture Endeavour crater vistas
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 13-mile-diameter ...
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Aug 22, 2011 |
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Image: Opportunity's heat shield
This image from 2005 shows the remains of the heat shield from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, broken into two key pieces, the main piece on the left side and a broken-off flank piece near the middle ...
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Aug 17, 2011 |
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Rover arrives at new site on martian surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before.
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Aug 10, 2011 |
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Surviving NASA rover nears rim of Martian crater
(AP) -- Months after the death of the Mars rover Spirit, its surviving twin is poised to reach the rim of a vast crater to begin a fresh round of exploration.
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Aug 08, 2011 |
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3Q: The next Mars rover's destination
When the next-generation Mars rover, dubbed Curiosity, touches down on martian soil next summer, its cameras will likely capture a scene similar to what the first explorers of the Grand Canyon witnessed: towe ...
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Jul 25, 2011 |
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NASA's next Mars rover to land at Gale Crater (w/ video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's next Mars rover will land at the foot of a layered mountain inside the planet's Gale crater.
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Jul 22, 2011 |
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Opportunity rover tops 20 miles of Mars driving
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than seven years into what was planned as a three-month mission on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven more than 20 miles, which is more than 50 times the mission's ...
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Jul 20, 2011 |
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NASA officials remember Mars rover Spirit
Scientists and engineers gathered Tuesday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to remember the legacy of the hard-luck rover Spirit that came through in the end with geologic evidence that Mars was once a warm ...
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Jul 20, 2011 |
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We'll miss you, you adorable Martian rovers
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA made its final attempt to uplink a command to the Spirit rover May 25. That afternoon, a group of us who work with the rovers at Cornell gathered at a bar to mourn. We drank sangria outside, ...
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Jul 08, 2011 |
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NASA to choose between 2 Mars landing sites
NASA is deciding between two places on Mars to send its next rover.
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Jul 07, 2011 |
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Honing in on landing site for new Mars Rover
NASA's new Mars probe, a $2.5 billion, nuclear-powered rover the size of a small car, is at the Florida launch site being prepared for its nine-month journey to the red planet, with one key issue still unresolved ...
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Jun 29, 2011 |
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New animation depicts next Mars rover in action
(PhysOrg.com) -- Although NASA's Mars Science Laboratory will not leave Earth until late this year nor land on Mars until August 2012, anyone can watch those dramatic events now in a new animation of the mission.
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Jun 27, 2011 |
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Gale crater reported front-runner for MSL landing site
A 150-kilometer-wide hollow on Mars named Gale Crater has emerged as the front-runner for the potential landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, which will head to Mars this fall. Nature ...
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Jun 24, 2011 |
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NASA's curiosity continues mobility checkouts
(PhysOrg.com) -- Spacecraft specialists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., have been putting the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity, through various tests in preparation for shipment ...
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Jun 14, 2011 |
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