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  NASA Mars Rover Preparing to Drill Into First Martian Rock

  January 16, 2013 — 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. If the rock meets rover engineers' approval when Curiosity rolls up ... > full story
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  Saline Hiding Places for Bacteria in Río Tinto Could Be Like Those on Mars

  January 11, 2013 — Researchers have identified microorganisms that live inside salt deposits in the acidic and ferrous environment of the Tinto River in Huelva, Spain. The extreme conditions of these microniches appear ... > full story
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  Researchers Develop Acrobatic Space Rovers to Explore Moons and Asteroids

  January 8, 2013 — Researchers have designed a robotic platform that could take space exploration to new heights. The mission proposed for the platform involves a mother spacecraft deploying one or several spiked, ... > full story
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  NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover Makes First Use of Its Brush

  January 7, 2013 — NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed first-time use of a brush it carries to sweep dust off rocks. Nearing the end of a series of first-time uses of the rover's tools, the mission has cleared ... > full story
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  Mars Rover Curiosity Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'

  January 5, 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." Snake River is a thin curving line ... > full story
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  First Meteorite Linked to Martian Crust

  January 3, 2013 — After extensive analyses, researchers have identified a new class of Martian meteorite that likely originated from Mars's crust. It is also the only meteoritic sample dated to 2.1 billion years ago, ... > full story
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  Clays on Mars: More Plentiful Than Expected

  December 20, 2012 — A new study indicates that clay minerals, rocks that usually form when water is present for long periods of time, cover a larger portion of Mars than previously ... > full story
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  Mars Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay'

  December 19, 2012 — The NASA Mars rover Curiosity this week is driving within a shallow depression called "Yellowknife Bay," providing information to help researchers choose a rock to ... > full story
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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
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  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

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