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June 19, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine one part of the Red Planet in great detail.
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June 4, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT), Wednesday, June 5 to provide an update about the Mars Science Laboratory mission and activities of the Curiosity rover.
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May 30, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Measurements taken by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission as it delivered the Curiosity rover to Mars in 2012 are providing NASA the information it needs to design systems to protect human explorers from radiation exposure on deep-space expeditions in the future.
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May 30, 2013
A new report tells how rocks examined by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity reveal details of how deep and how fast water once flowed in an ancient Martian stream.
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May 28, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA will host a media teleconference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) Thursday, May 30, to present new findings from the Mars Science Laboratory Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) aboard the rover Curiosity.
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May 20, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has used the drill on its robotic arm to collect a powdered sample from the interior of a rock called "Cumberland."
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May 9, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling.
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May 9, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
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May 2, 2013
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover social media campaign and the agency's Solar System Exploration website win Webby Awards, the leading honor for the best of the Internet.
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April 25, 2013
The team in charge of landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, received the museum's highest group honor.
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April 18, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
On a new list of the 100 most influential people on Earth, three work at the same California address, where they've led projects to study things that are not on Earth.
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April 9, 2013
NASA's official Twitter feed, @NASA, has won its second consecutive Shorty award for the best government use of social media.
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April 8, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate.
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April 3, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Photos from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show how the parachute that helped NASA's Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer has subsequently changed its shape on the ground.
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March 25, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted the engineers to switch the rover to a redundant main computer on Feb. 28.
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March 20, 2013
The positions of the planets next month will mean diminished communications between Earth and NASA's spacecraft at Mars.
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March 19, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has returned to active status and is on track to resume science investigations, following two days in a precautionary standby status, "safe mode."
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March 18, 2013
Engineers have quickly diagnosed a software issue that prompted NASA's Mars rover Curiosity to put itself into a precautionary standby status over the weekend.
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March 18, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock.
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March 15, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Mars Curiosity and lunar GRAIL missions, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., will be among those discussed during the 44th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston on March 18 to 22.
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March 15, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured in new imagery from the rover.
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March 13, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The down-to-Earth persona of NASA's Mars Curiosity rover, expressed on Twitter, Facebook, live streaming on Ustream, viral videos and the first Foursquare check-in from another planet, has captured the 2013 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Award for best social media campaign.
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March 13, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The team in charge of successfully landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will receive the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement.
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March 12, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
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March 11, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer. Curiosity has two computers that are redundant of one another.
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March 7, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Tuesday, March 12, to discuss the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars.
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March 4, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week. Resumption of full operations is anticipated by next week.
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February 28, 2013
The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active.
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February 25, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has delivered sample portions of rock powder collected from the interior of a rock on Mars into laboratory instruments inside the rover.
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February 20, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PST (3 p.m. EST) today, Feb. 20, to provide an update on the Mars rover Curiosity mission. Earlier today, Curiosity engineers confirmed the rover had collected the first-ever sample from inside a rock on Mars.
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February 20, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet.
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February 13, 2013
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover/Mars Science Laboratory and its team will receive a trio of National Space Club awards.
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February 11, 2013
On Mars, as on Earth, sometimes things can take on an unusual appearance.
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February 9, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Curiosity rover has, for the first time, used a drill carried at the end of its robotic arm to bore into a flat, veiny rock on Mars and collect a sample from its interior.
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February 7, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has produced some rock powder with its drill as the last major test before the rover's first full drilling.
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February 4, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used the hammering action of its drill on Feb. 2 as the second-to-last major test before the first full drilling to collect a sample of rock dust.
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January 28, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has placed its drill onto a series of four locations on a Martian rock and pressed down on it with the rover's arm, in preparation for using the drill in coming days.
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January 24, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has for the first time used the camera on its arm to take photos at night, illuminated by white lights and ultraviolet lights on the instrument.
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January 18, 2013
It's an all-American, once-every-four-years tradition: the inauguration of a president. On Monday, Jan. 21, the Red Planet will join the traditional red-white-and-blue pageantry when a life-size model of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity appears in the inaugural parade after President Barack Obama takes the oath of office.
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January 15, 2013
The people of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission have been named winners of a 2013 Space Foundation award for advancing exploration of space.
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January 15, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is driving toward a flat rock with pale veins that may hold clues to a wet history on the Red Planet.
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January 14, 2013
Source: Jet Propulsion Laboratory
NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PST (1 p.m. EST) on Tuesday, Jan. 15, to provide an update about the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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January 7, 2013
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks.
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January 4, 2013
After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River."
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