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NASA’s Mars rover set for first ‘test drive’
LOS ANGELES — A little more than two weeks after its arrival on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover will on Wednesday make its first “test drive” before setting off on its Red Planet mission, the US space agency said. The $2.5 billion rover, which landed on Mars on August 6, has…
Curiosity rover zaps Mars rock with rapid-fire laser
Mars rover Curiosity zaps ‘Coronation’ rock with rapid-fire laser (+video) (via The Christian Science Monitor) NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has zapped its first rock in what scientists elatedly declare a successful test of ChemCam, a laser-and-telescope combo designed to uncover the chemical composition of rocks on the Red Planet. The…
Mars rover landing sets off online celebration
After years of work culminating in “seven minutes of terror,” NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars late Sunday evening, setting off a celebration for not just the team behind it, but the online community that gathered to witness the event. As The Los Angeles Times reported, the announcement inside…
WATCH LIVE: NASA Curiosity rover landing on Mars
NASA’s largest Mars rover, Curiosity, is scheduled to land on Mars in perhaps the most complex landing on an alien world since space exploration began, according to the Guardian. NASA spent $2.5 billion on the project, and will explore whether the planet has ever had the potential to support life.…
NASA and Microsoft team up for Xbox ‘Mars Rover’ game
With significant budget cuts for its Mars program looming, NASA is looking to shake things up a bit, and they’ve turned to the video game makers at Microsoft to help them do it. Available now on Xbox Live, “Mars Rover Landing” uses the mostion-sensitive Kinect camera to let users interact…
NASA’s Mars rover two weeks from landing
WASHINGTON — NASA’s Curiosity rover is on target to arrive on Mars on August 6 for a two-year mission to find out whether microbial life once existed on the Red Planet, the US space agency said. Landing the car-sized rover is of course no easy task, NASA scientists say. “The…
NASA’s Mars rover to land via ‘sky crane’ in search of ancient habitable environment
NASA’s one-ton Mars rover “Curiosity” is expected to touch down on the red planet next month using a radically new delivery method. Previous landings on Mars have used large airbags to cushion the space rover’s fall. But the new rover is much too large to use that method of landing.…
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