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Atmosphere Checked, One Mars Year Before a Landing
09.29.10 - In preparation for NASA's next rover landing on the Red Planet, one Mars year away, an instrument studying the Martian atmosphere from orbit has begun a campaign.
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Trapped Mars Rover Finds Subsurface Water Evidence
10.28.10 - The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis.
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Opportunity Rover Reaches Halfway Point of Long Trek
09.08.10 - During a long drive on Labor Day, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached the estimated halfway point of its journey from Victoria Crater to Endeavour Crater.
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Mars Rover Opportunity Approaching Possible Meteorite
09.21.10 - A dark rock about the size of a toaster oven is visible in images NASA's Mars rover Opportunity took on Sept. 16. It may be a meteorite. The rover is going for a closer look.
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Watch Construction of NASA's New Mars Rover
10.21.10 - A newly installed webcam is giving the public an opportunity to watch technicians assemble and test the next NASA Mars rover, one of the most technologically challenging interplanetary missions ever designed.
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Strong Robotic Arm Extends From Next Mars Rover
09.16.10 - Tests underway in a JPL clean room will refine the precision of movements by a robotic arm that can reach more than 7 feet in front of NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.
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NASA's Next Mars Rover Rolls Over Ramps
09.13.10 - The rover for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity, exercised its mobility system by driving over raised ramps in recent testing at JPL.
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NASA Data Shed Light About Water, Volcanoes on Mars
09.09.10 - Data from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest liquid water has interacted with the Martian surface throughout the planet's history and into modern times.
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Next Mars Rover Stretches Robotic Arm
09.03.10 - Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory rover that will be on Mars two years from now, has been flexing the robotic arm that spacecraft workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory attached to the rover body in August 2010.
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NASA Receives Shorty Twitter Award
02.10.09 - NASA's activities in social networking media will be recognized Wednesday in New York, when the agency receives an award for its presence on the popular Web site Twitter.
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Missing Piece Inspires New Look at Mars Puzzle
09.03.10 - Experiments prompted by a 2008 surprise from NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander suggest that soil examined by NASA's Viking Mars landers in 1976 may have contained carbon-based chemical building blocks of life.
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Hundreds of New Views from Telescope Orbiting Mars
08.04.10 - The most powerful telescopic camera ever to orbit Mars reveals a fresh crater, an ice mound, climate-recording layers and many other views in 314 newly released observations.
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Instruments for NASA, ESA First Joint Mars Mission
08.02.10 - NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and selected the five science instruments for the first mission.
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New Project Manager for Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
08.02.10 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a new project manager: Phil Varghese, who has managed another veteran NASA Mars mission – the Mars Odyssey orbiter – since 2004.
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NASA's Hibernating Mars Rover May Not Call Home
07.30.10 - NASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet - trying to survive the harsh Martian winter.
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Martian Dust Devil Whirls into Opportunity's View
07.28.10 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has photographed its first dust devil, a challenging feat in the area where Opportunity is working.
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Mars Curiosity Takes First Baby Steps
07.23.10 - Like proud parents, mission team members gathered in a gallery above a clean room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to watch the Mars Curiosity rover roll for the first time.
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Curiosity Rover Grows by Leaps and Bounds
07.23.10 - In one week, Curiosity grew by approximately 1 meter (3.5 feet) when spacecraft technicians and engineers attached the rover's neck and head (called the Remote Sensing Mast) to its body.
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Video Camera Will Show Mars Rover's Touchdown
07.19.10 - A downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spacecraft to a landing on Mars.
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Curiosity Spins Its Wheels
07.13.10 - The wheels that will touch down on Mars in 2012 are several rotations closer to spinning on the rocky trails of Mars.