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Mars Science Lab Curiosity Lands On Mars First PhotoLos Angeles CA (AFP) Aug 06, 2012 NASA's JPL has safely landed the Mars Science Lab - dubbed Curiosity - at Gale Crater, which lies near a mountain that scientists hope the rover will be able to climb in the search for sediment layers that could be up to a billion years old. Curiosity is designed to hunt for soil-based signatures of life and send back data to prepare for a future human mission. NASA hopes to have some low-resolution black and white images taken from cameras on the rear of the rover shortly. The landing site for th ... read more |
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  Signs Changing Fast for Voyager at Solar System Edge Two of three key signs of changes expected to occur at the boundary of interstellar space have changed faster than at any other time in the last seven years, according to new data from NASA's Voyage ... more | .. |
 Two UT Scientists to Begin Searching for Potential Habitats for Life on Mars NASA's Curiosity rover is scheduled to land on Mars Sunday. Then, the work will begin for two University of Tennessee, Knoxville, professors searching for potentially habitable environments on the r ... more | .. |
 Taking a Robotic Geologist to Mars On Aug. 5, at about 10:30 p.m., an already busy summer will kick into overdrive for University of Arizona geosciences professor Bob Downs and one of his graduate students, Shaunna Morrison. At ... more | .. |
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  'Cry' of a Shredded Star Heralds a New Era for Testing Relativity Last year, astronomers discovered a quiescent black hole in a distant galaxy that erupted after shredding and consuming a passing star. Now researchers have identified a distinctive X-ray signal obs ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Prepares for Curiosity's Arrival Opportunity has been roving at the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater. However, activity will be constrained for the period ahead as Opportunity prepares for the arrival of Curios ... more | .. |
 What to Expect When Curiosity Starts Snapping Pictures If a group of tourists piled out of a transport vehicle onto the surface of Mars, they'd no doubt start snapping pictures wildly. NASA's Curiosity rover, set to touch down on the Red Planet the even ... more | .. |
  Ariane 5 performs 50th successful launch in a row Tonight marked the 50th successful Ariane flight in a row: an Ariane 5 was launched from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana to perform a dual deployment of two telecommunications satellites, Intels ... more |
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Iskander missile used in Russia attack on Kyiv govt building: official
North Korea's Kim oversees ICBM engine test: state media
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  NASA cash boosts efforts for shuttle successor Three aerospace firms have scored a total of $1.1 billion in NASA contracts to compete to build the next spacecraft to carry astronauts to the International Space Station after the shuttle program's end. ... more | .. |
 Are we alone? NASA's Mars rover aims to find out Are we alone? Or was there life on another planet? NASA's $2.5 billion dream machine, the Mars Science Laboratory, aims to take the first steps toward finding out when it nears Mars's surface on Monday. ... more | .. |
 India clears mission to Mars India's government has cleared plans to put an orbital probe around Mars next year to study the red planet's climate and geology, a report said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Mars weather forecast 'good' for NASA landing The weather conditions on Mars are expected to be favorable when NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory attempts its risky landing on August 6, the US space agency said Saturday. ... more |
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 NASA confident ahead of nail-biter Mars landing NASA said Thursday all was well ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth's nearest planetary neighbor. ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects SpaceX To Return Americans To Space Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) has won a $440 million contract with NASA to develop the successor to the Space Shuttle and transport American astronauts into space. "This is a decisiv ... more | .. |
 Australia is "all ears" for Mars landing Dishes in Australia will be the ones following NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission when it lands on Monday (6 August) after a nail-biting series of manoeuvres. The Canberra Deep Space Communicati ... more | .. |
 The Indian GSAT-10 satellite is prepared for Arianespace's fifth Ariane 5 flight of 2012 One of the two satellites for Arianespace's fifth Ariane 5 flight of 2012 is undergoing checkout in French Guiana, as preparations move forward for a dual-passenger heavy-lift mission, scheduled for ... more |
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Climate change is making rollercoaster harvests the new normal
Global study maps regions most threatened by ocean plastic pollution
Global trade drives one third of rising methane emissions | .. |
 Arianespace: 50 successful Ariane 5 launches in a row! With 50 successful launches in a row, Ariane 5 clearly sets the standard in space transportation for all customers, whether national or international agencies, governments or private industry. Above ... more | .. |
 Avanti announces successful launch of its HYLAS 2 Satellite Avanti Communications Group plc, the satellite operator, announces the successful launch of HYLAS 2 from the European Spaceport in Kourou, French Guiana on Ariane Flight VA208 at 5.54pm local time ( ... more | .. |
 UC Davis scientist prepares for Mars rover landing As the Mars rover Curiosity prepares for landing on Aug. 5 after its nine-month, 352-million mile journey through space, UC Davis geology professor Dawn Sumner will be making preparations of her own ... more | .. |
MSL Remains on Track for Weekend Landing Curiosity remains in good health, with no significant issues currently in work. There are no real-time activities planned. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft remains on a consistent and st ... more |
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 Hitchhiking Sensors Capture Curiosity's Entry Screaming through the thin Martian atmosphere at hypersonic speed, the Mars Science Laboratory is about to experience heat and pressure up to three times more intense than when a space shuttle retur ... more | .. |
 Newest NASA Mars Mission Connects Past and Future NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in three days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future decades. "Curiosity is a bold step ... more | .. |
 The fractured features of Ladon basin ESA's Mars Express has observed the southern part of a partially buried approx. 440-km wide crater, informally named Ladon basin. The images, near to where Ladon Valles enters this large impact regi ... more | .. |
 Space tourism seen as billion-dollar biz Commercial spaceflight and space tourism could become a $1.6 billion industry in the next decade, researchers told a congressional committee in Washington. ... more |
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Ethiopia's multi-billion-dollar dam promises economic boost
China's Xi calls on BRICS countries to 'resist all forms of protectionism'
Deep Fission secures $30M to advance underground nuclear reactors | .. |
 Curiosity's Search for Organics The last time an astrobiology mission landed on Mars, the nation was celebrating the Bicentennial and Gerald Ford was president. The two Viking landers went with the specific mission to search for s ... more | .. |
 Curiosity's First Daredevil Stunt When Curiosity enters the Martian atmosphere on August 6th, setting in motion "the seven minutes of terror" that people around the world have anticipated since launch a year ago, the intrepid rover ... more | .. |
  Dextrous robotic hand gets thumbs up European researchers said Thursday they had developed the world's first real-sized, five-fingered robotic hand able to grasp and manipulate objects with human-like dexterity. ... more | .. |
  Russia Launches Space Freighter to Orbital Station Russia's Progress class space freighter automatically docked with the International Space Station just six hours after blasting off from Earth, a spokesman for the Mission Control said on Thursday. ... more |
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 Ariane rocket with two telecom satellites lifts off An Ariane 5 rocket carrying two telecommunication satellites launched from the Kourou space centre in French Guiana on Thursday, an Internet broadcast by European operator Arianespace showed. ... more | .. |
India set to launch Mars mission in 2013 India plans to launch a mission to Mars next year, putting an orbital probe around the red planet to study its climate and geology, top space department officials said on Thursday. ... more | .. |
 NASA confident ahead of nail-biter Mars landing NASA said Thursday all was well ahead of its nail-biting mission to Mars, with its most advanced robotic rover poised to hunt for clues about past life and water on Earth's nearest planetary neighbor. ... more | .. |
 NASA to Announce New Agreements for Next Phase of Commercial Crew Development NASA will issue a news release to announce new agreements with industry partners for its Commercial Crew integrated Capability (CCiCap) initiative at 9 a.m. EDT, Friday, Aug. 3. At 10 a.m. NAS ... more |
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