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Bringing You There: Atlas V with Curiosity Rover Thunders to Mars
This past Saturday, an Atlas V carrying NASA's MSL Curiosity Mars rover thundered off the launch pad on the way…
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Vrooming over Vivid Vestan Vistas in Vibrant 3 D – Video
[/caption] It’s time to put on your 3-D glasses and go soaring all over the giant asteroid Vesta - thanks…
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NASA Planetary Science Trio Honored as ‘Best of What’s New’ in 2011- Curiosity/Dawn/MESSENGER
[/caption] A trio of NASA’s Planetary Science mission’s - Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Dawn and MESSENGER - has been honored…
Microscopic Worms May Help to Colonize Mars
[/caption] Once the realm of science fiction, the prospect of colonizing other planets is getting closer to reality. The most…
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Empowering Curiosity, Numerous Systems Required to Land Martian Rover
Launch video provided courtesy of United Launch Alliance CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla – It is a mission years in the making.…
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Curiosity Mars Rover Launch Gallery – Photos and Videos
[/caption] NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover is speeding away from Earth on a 352-million-mile (567-million-kilometer) journey to Mars…
The Human Cost of Russia’s Lost Spacecraft
[/caption] It hasn’t been a great year for Roscosmos, the Russian Federal Space Agency. In the last twelve months, it…
Comet Curiosity? MSL Looks Like a Comet as it Heads Toward Mars
What does a spacecraft look like as it lights-out for another world? This incredible time-lapse video was taken by astronomers…
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Curiosity Majestically Blasts off on ‘Mars Trek’ to ascertain ‘Are We Alone?’
[/caption] Atop a towering inferno of sparkling flames and billowing ash, Humankinds millennial long quest to ascertain “Are We Alone…
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Curiosity Rover ‘Locked and Loaded’ for Quantum Leap in Pursuit of Martian Microbial Life
[/caption] NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, the most technologically complex and scientifically capable robot built by humans to explore the surface…