 Business Insider | Curiosity rover finds 'flower' on Mars Fox News New photos of Mars from NASA's Curiosity rover have sparked a buzz of discussion over an odd formation that some have dubbed a "flower" embedded in a Martian rock. The rover has also found a snake-like rock formation winding across the Red Planet's ... Curiosity Rover Wields 'Dust Removal Tool' To Brush Mars Rocks Clean Curiosity Rover Explores 'Yellowknife Bay' Curiosity Rover Brushes Dust Off A Rock And Reveals White Patch |
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Mars Rover Curiosity Finds Martian 'Flower' and Snake-Like Rock
New photos of Mars from NASA's Curiosity rover have sparked a buzz of discussion over an odd formation that some have dubbed a "flower" embedded in a Martian rock. The rover has also found a snake-like rock formation winding across the Red Planet's surface.
From Mars Curiosity rover to SpaceX: Scientific feats in 2012 became 'one for the history books'
NASA and other nations have launched spacecraft into Earth orbit for decades. Rovers have already explored Mars. And scientists have known since the 1960s about the possible existence of a nearly undetectable particle that fills the gaps in understanding physics and the universe. Timeline: Scientific events from 2012
How We Got to Mars
 | This short video demonstrates how American Ingenuity landed us on MARS. Spirit, MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover -- A), is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010. It was one of two rovers of NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission. It landed successfully on Mars at 04:35 Ground UTC on January 4, 2004. This clip is taken from the IMAX movie "Roving Mars" from 2006 . This is an edited short version. Special thanks to Aheli. | Views: 0  0 ratings |
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Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover in new year
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.
Mars Rover Sample Return Mission 1988 NASA
 | more at scitech.quickfound.net "This video was created by NASA JSC's Missions Planning Division to depict a future unmanned Mars mission. Released Sep. 1988." Public domain film from NASA, slightly cropped to remove uneven edges, with the aspect ratio corrected, and mild video noise reduction applied. The soundtrack was also processed with volume normalization, noise reduction, clipping reduction, and/or equalization (the resulting sound, though not perfect, is far less noisy than the original). creativecommons.org en.wikipedia.org A Mars sample return mission (MSR) would be a spaceflight mission to collect rock and dust samples from Mars and to return them to Earth. Sample return is very powerful type of exploration, because analysis is freed from the time, budget, and space constraints of spacecraft sensors. All of Earth's laboratories can potentially study a sample. According to Louis Friedman, Executive Director of The Planetary Society, Mars sample return is often described by the planetary science community as the "holy grail" of robotic space missions, due to its high expected scientific return-on-investment. Over time several missions were planned but none of the proposed missions got beyond the planning phase. The three latest proposals for a MSR mission are a NASA-ESA proposal, a Russian proposal, Mars-Grunt, and a Chinese proposal. MSR was highest priority in the Planetary Decadal Survey 2013-2022: The Future of Planetary Science... Scientific value The return <b>...</b> | Views: 2 0 ratings |
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NASA's MARS CURIOSITY ROVER REPORT JANUARY 10, 2013 YouTube
 | Further videos are available in favourites, play lists on my channels and complementary video responses. Mirrored: www.youtube.com A NASA's Mars Curiosity rover team member gives an update on developments and status of the planetary exploration mission. The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft delivered Curiosity to its target area on Mars at 1:31:45 am EDT on Aug. 6, 2012 which includes the 13.8 minutes needed for confirmation of the touchdown to be radioed to Earth at the speed of light. The rover will conduct a nearly two-year prime mission to investigate whether the Gale Crater region of Mars ever offered conditions favorable for microbial life. Curiosity carries 10 science instruments with a total mass 15 times as large as the science payloads on NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity. Some of the tools, such as a laser-firing instrument for checking rocks' elemental composition from a distance, are the first of their kind on Mars. Curiosity will use a drill and scoop, which are located at the end of its robotic arm, to gather soil and powdered samples of rock interiors, then sieve and parcel out these samples into the rover's analytical laboratory instruments. | Views: 2 0 ratings |
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Road trip on tap for NASA's Mars rover
The Mars rover Curiosity is set to take on a big New Year adventure as it heads out to a nearby Martian mountain in February for a year-long trip.
Mars Rover Anniversary: NASA's 'Spirit,' 'Opportunity' Robots Mark ...
By: Mike Wall Published: 01/03/2013 08:07 AM EST on SPACE.com As the world rang in the Near Year this this week, NASA was looking forward to a big milestone of its own — nine years and counting on the surface of Mars ...
Curiosity Rover Spends Holiday Break Exploring 'Yellowknife Bay'
NASA Mission status report After imaging during the holidays, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity resumed driving Jan. 3 and pulled within arm's reach of a sinuous rock feature called "Snake River." Snake River is a thin curving line of darker rock cutting through flatter rocks and jutting above sand. Curiosity's science team plans to get a closer look at it before proceeding to other nearby rocks. "It ...
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