Tag Archives: Unmanned spacecraft

Mars Curiosity Rover Snaps Amazing New Selfies

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NASA has got a good thing going. Its Curiosity Mars Rover is currently traveling. That is towards the southwestern region of the cold planet. This has occurred after many weeks of exploration of...

Curiosity Rover Discovers Continental Crust on Mars Similar to Earth

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover has once again made a brand new discovery. A few light-colored rocks have been found on the surface of the Red Planet that bear an uncanny resemblance to the geological...

New Horizons Pluto Mission Suffered Scare

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So far everything went really well with the New Horizons spacecraft. Just end of last week we reported that NASA gave New Horizons an "All Clear" for the Pluto fly-by. Now a new report of an anomaly...

NASA’s Mars Curiosity Rover Traverses Martian Terrain

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NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover slowly and steadily made its way up a steep path on the Martian landscape. This was after the goal seemed impossible to reach. It was over 70 feet of land that had to be...

Liquid Water could be on Mars according to new Curiosity Research

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We know that there is water in the form of ice on Mars. New research from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity shows that it is possible that there is even liquid water on Mars. It might even be close to the...

NASA Rover on Mars finds Nitrogen

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NASA's Curiosity rover has found nitrogen on Mars. The nitrogen was detected in the form of nitric oxide, and could be released from the breakdown of nitrates during heating.Nitrates...

Curiosity Rover Celebrates 1st Martian Year

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NASA announced that the Mars Curiosity rover will complete a Martian year (687 Earth days) today. The Mars Curiosity Rover has accomplished the mission's main goal of determining whether Mars once...

NASA postpones ‘flying saucer’ test

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Bad weather is preventing NASA from launching a "flying saucer" into Earth's atmosphere to test technology that could be used to land on Mars.The space agency postponed a launch Wednesday and later...

Curiosity rover spots a light on Mars

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One of the best-explored planets in our solar system, not counting the Earth, is Mars. Mars has probes in orbit and the Curiosity rover prowling around on its surface. We have already seen some...