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Clara Ma Tours JPL
Pictured here is Clara Ma (in front row on the right) and her sister Remmy Ma with engineers Suparna Mukherjee, Jaime Waydo and then Julie Townsend (back row).
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Clara Ma Visits with JPL Engineers
Clara Ma (in front) with Suparna Mukherjee, Julie Townsend, Jaime Waydo (in back row) are featured here in the laboratory where an engineering model of the next Mars rover, Curiosity, is being tested.
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Rover-Naming Winner Signs Mars Rover Curiosity
Twelve-year-old Clara Ma of Lenexa, Kans., signs NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, an opportunity that she earned by submitting the winning essay in a national contest to name the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
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Winning Student in Contest to Name Mars Rover
Clara Ma, 12, of Lenexa, Kans., submitted an essay that won a national contest for naming the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
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Essay Winner's Signature on NASA's Curiosity Rover
Clara Ma, a sixth-grader from Lenexa, Kans., submitted the winning essay in early 2009 in a national contest to name the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
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Spirit's traverse map through Sol 1928
Where Are The Rovers Now? Spirit's traverse map through Sol 1928. As of Sol 1926, Spirit's total odometry remains at 7,729.93 meters (4.80 miles).
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Opportunity's traverse map through Sol 1898
Where are the rovers now? - Opportunity's traverse map through Sol 1898
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Parachute Opens During Tests for Mars Laboratory
Testing during March and April 2009 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif., qualified the parachute for NASA's next Mars rover.
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Opportunity Photographs Her Underbelly
Similar to a geologist's hand lens, the microscopic imager on NASA's Mars Exploration rovers is designed to image objects at a close distance (less than a few centimeters) at very high resolution.
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Spirit's Wheels Digging into Soft Ground, Sol 1899
Wheel slippage during attempts to extricate NASA's Mars Rover Spirit from a patch of soft ground during the preceding two weeks had partially buried the wheels.
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After a Spirit Drive West of 'Home Plate'
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove 6.98 meters (22.9 feet) southeastward on the 1,871st Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (April 8, 2009).
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Branched Features on the Floor of Antoniadni Crater
In this image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, the dark branched features in the floor of Antoniadi Crater look like giant ferns, or fern casts.
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Spirit's traverse map through Sol 1893
As of Sol 1892 (April 29, 2009), Spirit's total odometry is 7,729.73 meters (4.80 miles).
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Spirit Slipping in Soft Ground, Sol 1889
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit slipped in soft ground during short backward drives on the 1,886th and 1,889th Martian days, or sols, of the rover's mission on Mars (April 23 and 26, 2009).
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'Von Braun' Mound in Spirit's Drive Direction
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its navigation camera to capture this view of the terrain toward the southeast from the location Spirit reached on the 1,871st Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars (April 8, 2009).
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Large Parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory
A duplicate qualification-test parachute inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Mars Parachute Testing in World's Largest Wind Tunnel
The parachute for NASA's next mission to Mars passed flight-qualification testing in March and April 2009 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Open Parachute During Tests for Mars Science Laboratory
Parachute testing for Mars Science Laboratory during March and April 2009 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.
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Weather Movie, Mars South Polar Region, March-April 2009
This movie shows the southern high-latitudes region of Mars from March 19 through April 14, 2009, a period when regional dust storms occurred along the retreating edge of carbon-dioxide frost in the seasonal south polar cap.
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Weather Movie, Mars Southern Hemisphere, March-April 2009
This movie shows the full southern hemisphere of Mars from March 19 through April 14, 2009, a period when regional dust storms occurred along the retreating edge of carbon-dioxide frost in the seasonal south polar cap.