
NASA, GM Take Giant Leap in Robotic Technology
Engineers and scientists
from NASA and GM are working
together to build a new
humanoid robot capable of
working side by side with
people. Using leading edge
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NASA's Mars Rover Spirit Starts a New Chapter
After six years of
unprecedented exploration of
the Red Planet, NASA's Mars
Exploration Rover Spirit no
longer will be a fully
mobile robot. NASA has
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Route 66: Cassini's Next Look at Saturn's Moon Titan
Sixteen days after last
visiting Saturn's largest
moon, NASA's Cassini
spacecraft returns for
another look-see of the
cloud-shrouded moon -- this
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Auspicious Orbit Marks Run-Up to Phobos Flyby
On 26 January, Mars Express
completed its 7777th orbit
around the Red Planet, an
auspicious milestone as the
satellite is readied for the
closest-ever flyby of
Phobos, scheduled for just a
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NASA's WISE Eye Spies Near-Earth Asteroid
January 26, 2010 NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has spotted its first never-before-seen near-Earth asteroid, the first of hundreds it is expected to find during its mission to map the whole sky ... > full story -
Rover Gives NASA an 'Opportunity' to View Interior of Mars
January 22, 2010 NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars. Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a basketball was the target of ... > full story -
Resumed Mars Orbiter Observations Yield Stunning Views
January 21, 2010 Dunes of sand-sized materials have been trapped on the floors of many Martian craters. A new view captured by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows dunes inside a crater in Noachis Terra, west of ... > full story -
Infrared Hunt Begins: WISE Starts All-Sky Survey
January 21, 2010 NASA's Wide Field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE) began its survey of the infrared sky Jan. 14, 2010. The mission will spend nine months scanning the sky one-and-a-half times in infrared light, ... > full story -
Tooling Up ExoMars
January 18, 2010 ESA and NASA are inviting scientists from across the world to propose instruments for their joint Mars mission, the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. Scheduled for launch in 2016, the spacecraft will focus ... > full story -
As the Crust Turns: Cassini Data Show Enceladus in Motion
January 15, 2010 Blobs of warm ice that periodically rise to the surface and churn the icy crust on Saturn's moon Enceladus explain the quirky heat behavior and intriguing surface of the moon's south polar region, ... > full story -
NASA to Check for Unlikely Winter Survival of Mars Lander
January 13, 2010 Beginning Jan. 18, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will listen for possible, though improbable, radio transmissions from the Phoenix Mars Lander, which completed five months of studying an arctic Martian ... > full story -
WISE Eye Spies First Glimpse of the Starry Sky
January 7, 2010 NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, or WISE, has captured its first look at the starry sky that it will soon begin surveying in infrared ... > full story -
Scientist's Breakthrough Given Ticket to Mars
January 6, 2010 The quest to discover whether Mars ever hosted an environment friendly to microscopic forms of life has just gotten a shot in the arm. An experiment -- added to the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) ... > full story -
Spectacular Mars Images Reveal Evidence of Ancient Lakes
January 4, 2010 Spectacular satellite images suggest that Mars was warm enough to sustain lakes three billion years ago, a period that was previously thought to be too cold and arid to sustain water on the surface, ... > full story
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