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Web-Streamed Event Will Cover Mars Science Findings
Scientists will discuss recent discoveries about Mars and future Mars exploration at a Jan. 13 event to be streamed live and archived.
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Mars Rovers Mission Using Cloud Computing
The project team that built and operates the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity has become the first NASA space mission to use cloud computing for daily mission operations.
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NASA Checking on Rover Spirit During Martian Spring
Nine months after last hearing from the Mars rover Spirit, NASA is stepping up efforts to regain communications with the rover before spring ends on southern Mars in mid-March.
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Rover Will Spend 7th Birthday at Stadium-Size Crater
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity beside a crater where the rover will spend the seventh anniversary of its landing.
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Mars Movie - I'm Dreaming of a Blue Sunset
One Mars movie gives a rover's-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset; another shows the silhouette of Phobos passing in front of the sun.
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Opportunity Studying a Football-Field Size Crater
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend a few weeks investigating a football-field-size crater informally named "Santa Maria."
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NASA's Next Mars Rover to Zap Rocks With Laser
NASA's next Mars rover, Curiosity, will shoot a laser at rocks and patches of soil with enough power to generate a flash revealing each target's atomic ingredients.
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NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips for Mars Rover
NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments.
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NASA's Odyssey Spacecraft Sets Exploration Record
NASA's Mars Odyssey, which launched in 2001, will break the record Wednesday for longest-serving spacecraft at the Red Planet.
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Odyssey Orbiter Nears Martian Longevity Record
By the middle of next week, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history.
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Pits, Flows, Other Scenes in New Set of Mars Images
Thousands of new Mars images from 340 observations by the highest resolution camera orbiting the Red Planet include scenes of rimless pits, mud volcanoes and other features.
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Mars Rover Construction Webcam Tops Million Viewers
More than one million people have watched assembly and testing of NASA's next Mars rover via a live webcam since it went online in October.
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Spain Supplies Weather Station for Next Mars Rover
As it explores a region of Mars, NASA's rover Curiosity will monitor temperatures, winds, humidity and other environmental variables using tools supplied by Spain.
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NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week.
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Camera on Curiosity's Arm Will Magnify Clues in Rocks
A camera installed this month on the robotic arm of NASA's next Mars rover will do close-up inspections for clues to Martian environments, but it can look far away, too.
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Long-Lived Mars Odyssey Gets New Project Manager
The new project manager for the longest-working spacecraft currently active at Mars, NASA's Mars Odyssey, has a long track record himself.
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Orbiter Puts Itself Into Standby Safe Mode
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Wednesday, July 14, and the mission team has begun steps designed to resume the spacecraft's science and relay operations.
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NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map
A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever.
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Laser Tool for Studying Mars Rocks Delivered to JPL
A tool newly delivered from Los Alamos National Laboratory for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will zap Martian rocks with a laser to learn the rocks' makeup.
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Sensor on Mars Rover to Measure Radiation Environment
One of the experiments on NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission will measure the natural radiation environment to aid plans for future human missions.