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Curiosity Mars Rover Sees Trend in Water Presence
03.18.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has seen evidence of water-bearing minerals in rocks near where it had already found clay minerals inside a drilled rock.
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Panorama From NASA Mars Rover Shows Mount Sharp
03.15.13 - Rising above the present location of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, higher than any mountain in the 48 contiguous states of the United States, Mount Sharp is featured in new imagery from the rover.
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Moon, Mars Science Conference Events to Be Streamed
03.15.13 - Science conference briefings to be held next week in Houston will be streamed live online.
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Particles and Fields Package Integrated on MAVEN Spacecraft
03.14.13 - The six science instruments of MAVEN's Particles and Fields Package that will characterize the solar wind and ionosphere of Mars have been integrated with the spacecraft.
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NASA Mars Rover Mission Picked for Smithsonian Honor
03.13.13 - The team in charge of successfully landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will receive the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum's 2013 Trophy for Current Achievement.
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Mars Curiosity Lands South by Southwest Interactive Award
03.13.13 - The down-to-Earth persona of NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover, expressed on Twitter, Facebook, live streaming on Ustream, viral videos and the first Foursquare check-in from another planet, has captured the 2013 South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Award for best social media campaign.
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Curiosity Rover's Recovery on Track
03.04.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has transitioned from precautionary "safe mode" to active status on the path of recovery from a memory glitch last week.
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Curiosity Analyzes First Taste of Martian Soil
10.30.12 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has completed initial experiments showing the mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii.
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NASA Rover Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars
03.12.13 - An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA's Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes.
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Computer Swap on Curiosity Rover
02.28.13 - The ground team for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has switched the rover to a redundant onboard computer in response to a memory issue on the computer that had been active.
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Curiosity Rover's Recovery Moving Forward
03.11.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity continues to move forward with assessment and recovery from a memory glitch that affected the rover's A-side computer.
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Comet PANSTARRS Rises to the Occasion Mid-March
03.07.13 - A beautiful comet with a bulky name is making an appearance this month for lucky sky-watchers in some parts of the world.
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NASA Helps See Buried Mars Flood Channels in 3-D
03.07.13 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has provided images allowing scientists for the first time to create a 3-D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the Martian surface.
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NASA Briefing on Curiosity's Analysis of Mars Rock
03.07.13 - NASA will hold a news conference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT), Tuesday, March 12, to discuss the Curiosity rover's analysis of the first sample of rock powder ever collected on Mars.
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Lab Instruments Inside Curiosity Eat Mars Rock Powder
02.25.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has delivered sample portions of rock powder collected from the interior of a rock on Mars into laboratory instruments inside the rover.
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NASA Student Mars Project Wins Education Award
02.21.13 - A NASA project that allows students to use a camera on a spacecraft orbiting Mars for research has received a new education prize from the journal Science.
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NASA Rover Confirms First Drilled Mars Rock Sample
02.20.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has relayed new images that confirm it has successfully obtained the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet.
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NASA Hosts Telecon Today About Curiosity Rover
02.20.13 - NASA will host a media teleconference at noon PST (3 p.m. EST) today, Feb. 20, to provide an update on the Mars rover Curiosity mission.
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National Space Club Honors Mars Curiosity
02.13.13 - NASA's Mars Curiosity rover/Mars Science Laboratory and its team will receive a trio of National Space Club awards.
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MAVEN Begins Environmental Testing
02.08.13 - MAVEN is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver.