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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 -
One Year After Launch, Curiosity Rover Busy on Mars
November 27, 2012 — The NASA Mars rover Curiosity began its flight to Mars on Nov. 26, 2011, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., tucked inside the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft. One year after launch and ... > full story -
Fostering Curiosity: Mars Express Relays Rocky Images
November 26, 2012 — For the first time, ESA’s Mars orbiter has relayed scientific data from NASA’s Curiosity rover on the Red Planet’s surface. The data included detailed images of ... > full story
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