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NASA's Mars rover sends back stunning picturesPasadena, California (AFP) Aug 6, 2012 After its first day on Mars, NASA's rover Monday sent back to Earth stunning images of its crater landing site and the mountain it aims to climb in the hunt for signs of life. The landing of the $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and nuclear-powered robot Curiosity late Sunday opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration by touching down on the Red Planet. The one-ton mobile lab is the largest rover ever sent to Mars, and its high-speed landing was the most daring to date, ... read more |
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 Curiosity Safely on Mars! Health Checks Begin With Curiosity now safely on the surface of the Red Planet after last night's spectacular entry, descent and landing in Gale Crater, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory begins its planned primary one-Mar ... more | .. |
  Proton Launch Failure Russia left two communications satellites, the Indonesian Telkom 3 and its own Express-MD2, stranded in the wrong orbit after a perfect lift off for a Proton-M/Briz-M rocket. Launch at 19:31 UTC was ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Lab Presents Mount Sharp This image taken by NASA's Curiosity shows what lies ahead for the rover - its main science target, Mount Sharp. The rover's shadow can be seen in the foreground, and the dark bands beyond are dunes ... more | .. |
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 ESA spacecraft records crucial NASA signals from Mars This morning at 7:14 CEST, ESA's Mars Express acquired signals from NASA's Mars Science Laboratory as it delivered the car-sized Curiosity rover onto the Red planet's surface. ESA's New Norcia track ... more | .. |
  Five Potential Habitable Exoplanets Now New data suggests the confirmation of the exoplanet Gliese 581g and the best candidate so far of a potential habitable exoplanet. The nearby star Gliese 581 is well known for having four planets wit ... more | .. |
  Testing at Goddard: 'The Chamber of Horrors' With pipe-covered ceilings three stories high, catwalks lining the walls, and wires covering every surface, the Environmental Test Engineering and Integration facility-affectionately nicknamed the " ... more | .. |
  NASA, Louisiana Officials Renew Partnership With National Center For Advanced Manufacturing NASA and Louisiana leaders Thursday committed to a five-year extension of their partnership in the National Center for Advanced Manufacturing (NCAM). NCAM is a principal NASA resource in Louisiana t ... 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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  e2v To Supply Large CMOS Imaging Sensors For Imaging Kuiper Belt Objects TAOS II will measure the size distribution of small objects (~1 km diameter) at the edge of our solar system in the Kuiper Belt and beyond. These objects are of scientific interest because the ... more | .. |
NASA lands rover on Mars to seek signs of life NASA opened a new chapter in the history of interplanetary exploration on Monday when its $2.5 billion nuclear-powered robot Curiosity beamed back pictures from the surface of Mars. ... more | .. |
 Next on Mars: 400 scientists on an alien road trip Imagine taking 400 scientists on an alien road trip where each one wants to examine every interesting rock along the way. Welcome to the next two years of NASA's landmark robotic mission on Mars. ... more | .. |
 'Enormous step forward' as NASA lands rover on Mars NASA has successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, breaking new ground in US-led exploration of an alien world. ... more |
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 Joy after seven minutes of terror at NASA lab After years of hard work and seven minutes of terror, workers of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory here let out their tears of joy. ... more | .. |
  Roscosmos Announces Tender for Moon Rocket Design The Russian Space Agency (Roscosmos) announced a ten-million ruble ($300,000) tender on Thursday to develop a blueprint of a heavy rocket-carrier that would be capable of carrying manned spacecraft ... more | .. |
  The Astrobiology Analytical Lab at Goddard When Daniel Glavin isn't designing a chemistry experiment to run from millions of miles away, he's a researcher in the Astrobiology Analytical Laboratory at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Gre ... more | .. |
 JPL Infographics Site Wants You and Your Creativity JPL Infographics, a newly launched website and resource database from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., is inviting space aficionados and graphic wizards to take on a visual challe ... more |
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Climate change is making rollercoaster harvests the new normal
Global study maps regions most threatened by ocean plastic pollution
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 NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a ... more | .. |
 Mars landing 'unprecedented feat of technology': Obama US President Barack Obama hailed early Monday the successful landing of the Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, calling it "an unprecedented feat of technology." ... more | .. |
'Enormous step forward' as NASA lands rover on Mars NASA on Sunday successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, marking the most ambitious attempt to reach Mars in history. ... 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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Mars Science Lab Curiosity Lands On Mars: First Photos 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 laye ... 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 | .. |
  '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 | .. |
 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 |
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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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
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 | .. |
  China's manned spacecraft in final preparations for mid-June launch China's Shenzhou-9 manned spacecraft is in final preparations for its launch in mid-June, paving the way for China's first manned space docking mission, as well as the country's first space mission ... 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 |
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 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 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 | .. |
 Boeing Delivers 2nd Intelsat 702MP Satellite to Sea Launch Home Port Boeing recently completed shipment of the second of four 702MP satellites for customer Intelsat S.A., paving the way for a third quarter 2012 launch of another member of the medium-power satellite f ... more |
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