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Mars Rover Curiosity Can Be Positioned With Eclipses
December 13, 2012 — Observations from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity when Mars' moon Phobos crosses in front of the sun, like in September, help us to understand exactly where the rover is on the red planet. Researchers in ... > full story -
Mars Rover Self-Portrait Shoot Uses Arm Choreography
December 11, 2012 — The robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity held the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) camera in more than 50 positions in one day to generate a single scene combining all the images, creating ... > full story -
Mars Rover Curiosity Nearing Yellowknife Bay
December 11, 2012 — The NASA Mars rover Curiosity drove 63 feet (19 meters) northeastward early Monday, Dec. 10, approaching a step down into a slightly lower area called "Yellowknife Bay," where researchers intend to ... > full story -
What Is Creating Gullies on Giant Asteroid Vesta?
December 6, 2012 — In a preliminary analysis of images from NASA's Dawn mission, scientists have spotted intriguing gullies that sculpt the walls of geologically young craters on the giant asteroid Vesta. The ... > full story -
Orbiter Spies Where Rover's Cruise Stage Hit Mars
December 6, 2012 — During the 10 minutes before the NASA Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft entered the Martian atmosphere to deliver the rover Curiosity to the surface, the spacecraft shed its cruise stage, which had ... > full story -
New NASA Mars Rover to Launch in 2020
December 4, 2012 — Building on the success of Curiosity's Red Planet landing, NASA has announced plans for a robust multi-year Mars program, including a new robotic science rover set to launch in 2020. This ... > full story -
NASA Opportunity Rover Finishes Walkabout on Mars Crater Rim
December 4, 2012 — The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a ... > full story -
Curiosity Shakes, Bakes, and Tastes Mars With SAM
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Curiosity rover analyzed its first solid sample of Mars in November with a variety of instruments, including the Sample Analysis at Mars instrument ... > full story -
Complex Chemistry Within the Martian Soil: No Definitive Detection of Organics Yet
December 3, 2012 — NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found a complex chemistry within the Martian soil. Water and sulfur and ... > full story -
Martian Dust Storm Dissipating
November 28, 2012 — A regional dust storm on Mars, tracked from orbit since Nov. 10, appears to be abating rather than going ... > full story
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