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Sun puts Mars rovers on break
… charged particles spewing from the sun can scramble transmission signals and put spacecraft in danger.Not your father's Mars rover , what makes Curiosity different Mission teams prepared by uploading weeks of scaled-back activities beforehand. "They …
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Mars rover sidelined again
Another problem is preventing the Mars rover Curiosity from resuming its science experiments. The mission's chief scientist said Monday the rover went into safe mode again …
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Curiosity's rover's latest Mars find to be unveiled
… headquarters Tuesday, the rover team will detail the minerals and chemicals present in a grey pinch of ground-up rock.RELATED: Mars rover has considerable Canadian connection The rock results come seven months after Curiosity made a dramatic landing in an ancient …
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Curiosity rover powered down for solar blast
… in contact with Earth. "We'll be watching and seeing what happens," said Roger Gibbs, JPL deputy manager for the Mars exploration program. The unsettled space weather comes as Curiosity is recovering from a memory hiccup that put its science experiments …
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Curiosity rover bores hole in a Mars rock for analysis
In a Mars first, the Curiosity rover drilled into a rock and prepared to dump an aspirin-sized pinch of powder into its onboard laboratories for closer inspection.
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Adapting to life in space
… as the body. It also showed that some people are better at facing these difficulties than others, so choosing a crew to explore Mars will be very challenging. A Mars crew will have to be highly trained and disciplined. Their environment on board the spacecraft …
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NASA seems lost in space says critical report
… said he had nothing to add beyond NASA's comments.New Mars rover in 2020Wednesday's report came the same day astronaut Scott ..... just ahead of the report, NASA announced plans for a new Mars rover in 2020 in a sequel to the successful Curiosity mission …
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NASA to launch another Mars rover in 2020
… gear that delivered the car-size rover inside an ancient crater in August. The announcement comes as NASA reboots its Mars exploration program during tough fiscal times. "The action right now is on the surface, and that's where we want to be," said …
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Last Canadian asbestos mine gets 2nd life as Mars stand-in
… Canadian Press.Searching for “key indicators” of lifeThe goal of the project was to simulate as closely as possible a Mars rover mission to detect the presence of, and determine the source of, methane on Mars. Cloutis, an expert in planetary geology …
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Mars Curiosity rover gets first taste of Martian dirt
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has taken its first bite of Martian soil and dug up a mini-mystery for scientists: a bright white speck amid the reddish …