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NASA Hosts Teleconference About Curiosity Rover Progress
NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Tuesday, Aug. 14, to provide a status update on the Curiosity rover's mission to Mars' Gale Crater.
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NASA Mars Rover Team Hears from President Obama
President Barack Obama called to congratulate members of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team at the agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. Monday (Aug. 13).
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NASA's Curiosity Beams Back a Color 360 of Gale Crater
The first images from Curiosity's color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, have been received by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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First 360-Degree Panorama From NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover
Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on Mars.
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Orbiter Images NASA's Martian Landscape Additions
Monday night, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter imaged the Curiosity rover and the components that helped it survive its ordeal from space to its present location on Mars.
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New Mars Rover Beams Back Images Showing its Descent
Earlier today, just hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth.
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing
An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 meter) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater.
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NASA's New Mars Rover Sends Higher-Resolution Image
About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA's Curiosity rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale Crater.
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NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain
NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet.
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Curiosity Rover Just Hours from Mars Landing
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is healthy and right on course for a landing in several hours that will be one of the most difficult feats of robotic exploration ever attempted.
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Explore A Room With a Mars View
New panorama gives viewers an inside look at the room where mission team members will guide NASA's Curiosity rover through its entry, descent and landing on Mars.
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Mars Tugging on Approaching NASA Rover Curiosity
The gravitational tug of Mars is now pulling NASA's car-size geochemistry laboratory, Curiosity, in for a suspenseful landing in less than 40 hours.
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What to Expect When Curiosity Starts Snapping Pictures
Unlike a group of tourists just arriving on Mars, NASA's Curiosity rover will take a more careful approach to snapping its first images.
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Signs Changing Fast for Voyager at Solar System Edge
The pace of changes quicken at the boundary of interstellar space.
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Newest NASA Mars Mission Connects Past and Future
NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in three days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future decades.
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NASA Hosts Social Media Events Across Seven Agency Field Centers
NASA's social media followers at seven field centers will virtually come together at a NASA Social on Friday, Aug. 3, to preview the landing of the the Curiosity rover.
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JPL Infographics Site Wants You and Your Creativity
A new JPL website is offering up NASA graphics, images and science data, inviting the public to create and share out-of-this-world infographics.
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NASA Announces News Activities for Mars Landing
The public is invited to tune in for a series of news briefings from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., for the upcoming landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.
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Curiosity Rover on Track for Early August Landing
Eight days before reaching Mars, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft performed a flight-path adjustment scheduled more than nine months ago.
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China Olympics Traffic Measures Cut Carbon Emissions
As the world readies for the 2012 London Olympics, a NASA-funded study finds traffic restrictions for the 2008 Beijing Olympics sharply reduced carbon dioxide emissions.