May 10, 2013 The team operating NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. Continue reading
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NASA Spacecraft Take Spring Break at Mars
NASA’s robotic Mars explorers are taking a cosmic break for the next few weeks, thanks to an unfavorable planetary alignment of Mars, the Earth and the sun. Mission controllers won’t send any commands to the agency’s Opportunity rover, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) or Mars Odyssey orbiter from today (April 9) through April 26. The blackout is even longer for NASA’s car-size Curiosity rover, which is slated to go solo from April 4 through May 1. Continue reading
NASA Sees Curiosity Rover’s Parachute Flapping in Martian Wind (Video)
NASA’s most powerful spacecraft orbiting Mars has captured amazing new images of the huge parachute used by the agency’s Curiosity rover when it safely landed on the Red Planet last August. A video of the NASA images of Curiosity’s parachute shows it billowing in the Martian wind. The views were recorded by NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter currently circling the planet Continue reading
NASA ‘s Curiosity rover back online after memory glitch
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, is back on active status Tuesday, after a memory glitch set the robot back. “We expect to get back to sample-analysis science by the end of the week,” said Curiosity Mission Manager Jennifer Trosper in a statement. On February 28, controllers put the rover into “minimal activity safe mode” when they switched the machine’s operations to a backup computer after detecting malfunctions in the primary computer’s flash memory Continue reading
NASA Passed on Mars Flyby Mission in 1990s
Researchers practice collecting rocks outside the Mars Desert Research Station near Hanksville, Utah. Millionaire entrepreneur Dennis Tito got space enthusiasts excited last month when he announced a project to fly a married couple around Mars in 2018but NASA may have passed on a similar mission when it was proposed in the late 1990s by a prominent aerospace engineer. According to Robert Zubrin, president of the Mars Society and a prominent advocate for exploration of the red planet, he had meetings with former NASA administrator Daniel Goldin in the late 1990s to pitch him a nearly identical mission to Tito’s that would have launched in 2001 and cost the agency about $2 billion. Continue reading
NASA ‘s Curiosity rover to be back online next week
NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since it landed to much fanfare last August, should be running at full capacity next week, after a memory glitch set the robot back. On February 28, controllers put the rover into “minimal activity safe mode,” when they switched the machine’s operations to a backup computer after detecting malfunctions in the primary computer’s flash memory Continue reading
NASA fixing computer glitch on Mars Curiosity rover
NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has been temporarily put into “safe mode,” as scientists monitoring from Earth try to fix a computer glitch, the US space agency said. Scientists switched to a backup computer Thursday so that they could troubleshoot the problem, said to be linked to a glitch in the original computer’s flash memory. Continue reading
Dinasaur Found On Mars 2013 1080p Available – Video
Dinasaur Found On Mars 2013 1080p Available Very strange looking object caught by Mars Curiosity, this one looks like the fossilised remains of a martian creature, possibly a Dinosaur.of sorts. Continue reading
NASA's MAVEN Mission Completes Assembly
NASA’s Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the next mission to Mars and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere. Continue reading
NASA's 'Mohawk Guy' Will Sit with First Lady at State of the Union
Life is good for NASA’s “Mohawk Guy.” He became world famous after helping NASA’s huge Curiosity rover make a dramatic landing on Mars, and now he’ll sit with first lady Michelle Obama during Tuesday’s State of the Union address. The Iranian-American Mohawk Guy whose name is Bobak Ferdowsi will sit in the first lady’s box to highlight President Barack Obama’s call for more visas for skilled immigrants in the fields of math, science and engineering, Southern California Public Radio reportedMonday (Feb Continue reading
NASA rover drills into its first Martian rock
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – The Mars rover Curiosity drilled into the Martian surface for the first time as part of an effort to learn if the planet most like Earth in the solar system ever had conditions to support microbial life, NASA said on Saturday. Pictures beamed back to Earth on Saturday showed a hole about 0.63 inches wide and 2.5 inches deep in a patch of fine-grained sedimentary bedrock that appears to have been in contact with water. The drilling, which took place on Friday, produced a small pile of powder that will be fed into two onboard laboratory instruments to determine the rock’s chemical makeup. Continue reading
NASA's Curiosity ready to drill first Mars rock
NASA’s Curiosity, the SUV-sized robot exploring Mars, is getting ready to spin its drill bit for the first time. Curiosity can probe an inch deep into Martian rock, deeper than any previous rover or lander Continue reading
NASA to Premiere New Mars Exploration Film Today
NASA is unveiling a new documentary film about the history of Mars exploration today (Jan. 23) to an audience in the Los Angeles area, and there’s a chance the movie could eventually get distributed nationally. Continue reading
NASA's older Mars rover begins 10th year of exploration
The Associated Press Published Monday, Jan. 21, 2013 8:23AM EST LOS ANGELES — Opportunity, NASA’s other Mars rover, has tooled around the red planet for so long it’s easy to forget it’s still alive. Some 8,000 kilometres away from the limelight surrounding Curiosity’s every move, Opportunity this week quietly embarks on its tenth year of exploration — a sweet milestone since it was only tasked to work for three months Continue reading
NASA's older Mars rover notches another milestone
LOS ANGELES (AP) Opportunity, NASAs other Mars rover, has tooled around the red planet for so long its easy to forget its still alive. Some 5,000 miles away from the limelight surrounding Curiositys every move, Opportunity this week quietly embarks on its tenth year of exploration a sweet milestone since it was only tasked to work for three months. Continue reading
FLOWER ON MARS – NASA CURIOSITY, MARTIAN FLOWER, ARE THERE REALLY FLOWERS ON MARS? NASA BANNED VIDEO – Video
FLOWER ON MARS – NASA CURIOSITY, MARTIAN FLOWER, ARE THERE REALLY FLOWERS ON MARS? NASA BANNED VIDEO Flower On Mars – NASA CURIOSITY, Martian Flower 7/1/2013 This has been reported by various news outlets but this is a Flower found on the surface of Mars by the Curiosity Rover in SOL 132 Continue reading
Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in new year
PASADENA, California Since captivating the world with its acrobatic landing, the Mars rover Curiosity has fallen into a rhythm: Drive, snap pictures, zap at boulders, scoop up dirt. Repeat. Topping its to-do list in the new year: Set off toward a Martian mountain — a trek that will take up a good chunk of the year. Continue reading
NASA Is With You When You Fly
Traveling by air this holiday season, or any time of year? Continue reading
Curiosity Rover Report Dec 21, 2012 Curiosity’s Martian Holiday – Video
Curiosity Rover Report Dec 21, 2012 Curiosity's Martian Holiday NASA – Curiosity's Martian Holiday www.nasa.gov/…/curiosity20121221.html – Traduzir esta pgina Curiosity's Martian Holiday. 12.21.12 Continue reading