Tag Archives: Mars Exploration Rover

How NASA’s future robots will explore frozen worlds

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Delivering a rover to the surface of a distant icy world like Jupiter's moons Europa and Titan is only half the challenge. Once on the surface, the robotic explorers will have to contend with intense space radiation, plunging temperatures that drop t...

Mars Curiosity Rover Snaps Amazing New Selfies

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NASA has got a good thing going. Its Curiosity Mars Rover is currently traveling. That is towards the southwestern region of the cold planet. This has occurred after many weeks of exploration of...

Curiosity Rover Discovers Continental Crust on Mars Similar to Earth

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover has once again made a brand new discovery. A few light-colored rocks have been found on the surface of the Red Planet that bear an uncanny resemblance to the geological...

Pyramid Found On Mars Built by An Ancient Civilization?

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On the 7th of May the NASA Curiosity Rover took some photographs in which a rock like structure has the shape of a pyramid. The pyramid is supposedly the size of a small car or it could be the tip of...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Traverses Martian Terrain

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover slowly and steadily made its way up a steep path on the Martian landscape. This was after the goal seemed impossible to reach. It was over 70 feet of land that had to be...

Curiosity Rover Celebrates 1st Martian Year

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NASA announced that the Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year (687 Earth days) today. The Mars Curiosity Rover has accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once...

NASA hopes to launch Flying Saucer Soon

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LOS ANGELES (AP) — NASA hopes to try again to launch a "flying saucer" into Earth's atmosphere to test Mars mission technology after losing the chance because of bad weather, project managers said...

NASA postpones ‘flying saucer’ test

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Bad weather is preventing NASA from launching a "flying saucer" into Earth's atmosphere to test technology that could be used to land on Mars.The space agency postponed a launch Wednesday and later...

Curiosity rover spots a light on Mars

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One of the best-explored planets in our solar system, not counting the Earth, is Mars. Mars has probes in orbit and the Curiosity rover prowling around on its surface. We have already seen some...

NASA Rover Camera Captures Light On Mars is Not Alien

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NASA’s Curiosity rover recently rolled to a new vantage point on Mars and started snapping photos to send home, and one shot seems to show that some underground-dwelling martians may have left...