Posts in the past four weeks
Wednesday
May 22 2013
00:11 UTC
After successfully coming out of solar conjunction late last month, theÂCuriosity roverÂhas resumed its science activities, beginning withÂthe second drilling into bedrock, it was reported yesterday. This location, a piece of bedrock called “Cumberland,” is only about 2. 75 metres (9 … Continue reading →The post Curiosity rover completes second drilling at ‘Cumberland' appeared first on The Meridiani Journal.
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Tuesday
May 21 2013
02:54 UTC
NASA's Curiosity rover has just successfully bored inside ancient rocks on Mars for only the 2nd time since her nail biting landing in August 2012 inside Gale Crater as she searches for the ingredients of life. On Sunday, May 20, the rover drilled about 2. 6 inches (6. 6 centimeters) deep into a target named Cumberland to
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Sunday
May 19 2013
22:42 UTC
It's time at last for Drill, Baby, Drill! – Martian Style. Ever wonder how Curiosity Does It Check out this enlightening and cool new NASA video for an exquisitely detailed demonstration of just how Curiosity shakes, rattles and rolls on the Red Planet and swallows that mysterious Martian powder.(...)Read the rest of Drill, Baby, Drill!
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Sunday
May 12 2013
21:34 UTC
After just coming out of its month-long “vacation” due to solar conjunction, theÂCuriosity roverÂis ready to resume science operations,Âand do some more drilling, it was reported last Thursday. The second drilling site has now been chosen, a piece of bedrock … Continue reading →The post Curiosity rover ready to start drilling again appeared first on The Meridiani Journal.
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Saturday
May 11 2013
17:45 UTC
NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out in a Martian handshake' like gesture welcoming the end of solar conjunction that marks the resumption of contact with her handlers back on Earth – evidenced in a new photo mosaic of images captured as the robot and her human handlers contemplate a short traverse to a 2nd drilling
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Tuesday
May 07 2013
21:50 UTC
Do you want to go to Mars? Well here's your chance to get connected for a double barreled dose of Red Planet adventure courtesy of MAVEN – NASA's next Mission to Mars' which is due to liftoff this November from the Florida Space Coast. For a limited time only, NASA is offering the general public
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Thursday
May 02 2013
03:43 UTC
After taking a well deserved and unavoidable break during April's solar conjunction with Mars that blocked two way communication with Earth, NASA's powerful Martian fleet of orbiters and rovers have resumed contact and are alive and well and ready to Rock n Roll n Drill. Both orbiters and both rovers are in good health after
Posted by Universe Today
Friday
Apr 26 2013
16:25 UTC
Above is a recent 3-D version of a panoramic view from NASA of the Curiosity Mars rover, made from dozens of images from both the left and right Navcams. But panoramic specialist John O'Connor has also put together a non-3-D interactive view of this scene of the rover and its surroundings. The images were taken
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