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NASA's New Mars Rover Sends Higher-Resolution Image
About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA's Curiosity rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale Crater.
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NASA Announces Curiosity Rover Media Events Schedule
NASA will host several media teleconferences and/or news conferences to provide Curiosity rover mission updates in the coming weeks.
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NASA to Host Curiosity Rover Teleconference Aug. 17
Curiosity rover has returned high-resolution color images of its surroundings on Mars that reveal a landscape not unlike portions of the southwestern United States.
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NASA Mars Rover Team Hears From President Obama
President Barack Obama this morning told the flight control team for NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, "You made us all proud."
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Orbiter Views NASA's New Mars Rover in Color
The first color image taken from orbit showing NASA's rover Curiosity on Mars includes details of the layered bedrock on the floor of Gale Crater that the rover is beginning to investigate.
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NASA Hosts Teleconference About Curiosity Progress
Curiosity rover has returned high-resolution color images of its surroundings on Mars that reveal a landscape not unlike portions of the southwestern United States.
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NASA Curiosity Mars Rover Installing Smarts for Driving
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity will spend its first weekend on Mars transitioning to software better suited for tasks ahead, such as driving and using its strong robotic arm.
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Orbiter Images NASA's Martian Landscape Additions
Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the components that helped it survive its seven-minute ordeal from space to its present location in Mars' Gale Crater.
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Timeline of Milestones During Curiosity's Landing
Curiosity's Entry, Descent and Landing team has provided a timeline of critical mission events that occurred on the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (early on Aug. 6 EDT).
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NASA's Curiosity Beams Back a Color 360 of Gale Crater
The first images from Curiosity's color Mast Camera, or Mastcam, have been received by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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First 360-Degree Panorama From NASA's Curiosity Rover
Remarkable image sets from NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter are continuing to develop the story of Curiosity's landing and first days on Mars.
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New Mars Rover Beams Back Images Showing Its Descent
Earlier today, just hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth.
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NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain
NASA's most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars Sunday to end a 36-week flight and begin a two-year investigation.
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Launch Director Hails Curiosity Landing
Omar Baez celebrated the landing of NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars nine months after he oversaw the mission's launch.
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NASA's Curiosity Rover Caught in the Act of Landing
An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost 16 meter) parachute as it descended towards its landing site at Gale Crater.
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Curiosity Rover Just Hours from Mars Landing
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is healthy and right on course for a landing in several hours that will be one of the most difficult feats of robotic exploration ever attempted.
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What to Expect When Curiosity Starts Snapping Pictures
Unlike a group of tourists just arriving on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover will take a more careful approach to snapping its first images.
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Mars Tugging on Approaching NASA Rover Curiosity
Unlike a group of tourists just arriving on Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover will take a more careful approach to snapping its first images.
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Explore a Room With a Mars View
On the evening of Sunday, Aug. 5, the focal point of Martian activity here on Earth will be located in the Mission Support Area in Building 230 at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
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Newest NASA Mars Mission Connects Past and Future
NASA's newest Mars mission, landing in three days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for future decades.