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Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity now holds the record for farthest driving by a NASA vehicle on a world away from Earth, passing a mark set by an Apollo ...

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Orbital diagram of asteroid 1998 QE2

Asteroid 1998 QE2 to Sail Past Earth

Asteroid 1998 QE2 will get no closer than about 3.6 million miles at time of closest approach on May 31 at 1:59 p.m. Pacific (4:59 p.m. Eastern).

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Rover's self-portrait at 'John Klein' drilling site

NASA Wins Prestigious Aerospace Industry Awards

Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's ...

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Fresh cluster of impact craters on Mars

NASA Probe Counts Space Rock Impacts on Mars

Scientists using images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter have estimated that the planet is bombarded by more than 200 small asteroids or bits ...

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Map shows the location of 'Cumberland'

NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling ...

The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling ...

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Out-of-this-World Records

This chart illustrates comparisons among the distances driven by various wheeled vehicles on the surface of Earth's moon and Mars.

This chart illustrates comparisons among the distances driven by various wheeled vehicles on the surface of Earth's moon and Mars. Of the vehicles shown, the NASA Mars rovers Opportunity and ...

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View Back at Record-Setting Drive by Opportunity

View Back at Record-Setting Drive by Opportunity

On the 3,309th Martian day, or sol, of its mission on Mars (May 15, 2013) NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity drove 263 feet (80 meters) southward along the western rim of Endeavour Crater. ...

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Curiosity at 'Cumberland'

Curiosity at 'Cumberland'

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its front left Hazard-Avoidance Camera for this image of the rover's arm over the drilling target "Cumberland" during the 275th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's ...

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Fresh Cluster of Impact Craters on Mars

Fresh cluster of impact craters on Mars

This set of images from cameras on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter documents the appearance of a new cluster of impact craters on Mars. The orbiter has imaged at least 248 fresh craters, or crater ...

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Sky Gets Dustier Between Opportunity's Sols 3296 and ...

These two images, taken five Martian days (sols) apart by the front hazard-avoidance camera

These two images, taken five Martian days (sols) apart by the front hazard-avoidance camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, document the Martian sky above the rover's Endeavour Crater ...

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'Cumberland' Selected as Curiosity's Second Drilling ...

Map shows the location of 'Cumberland'

This map shows the location of "Cumberland," the second rock-drilling target for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, in relation to the rover's first drilling target, "John Klein," within the southwestern ...

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'Cumberland' Target for Drilling by Curiosity Mars ...

'Cumberland' target for drilling

This patch of bedrock, called "Cumberland," has been selected as the second target for drilling by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. The rover has the capability to collect powdered material from inside ...

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Argon Isotopes Provide Robust Signature of Atmospheric ...

This image shows the ratio of the argon isotope argon-36 to the heavier argon isotope argon-38, in various measurements

This image shows the ratio of the argon isotope argon-36 to the heavier argon isotope argon-38, in various measurements. The point farthest to the right designates a new (2013) measurement of the ...

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