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NASA Curiosity Rover Team Selects Second Drilling Target on Mars
05.09.13 - The team operating NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has selected a second target rock for drilling and sampling. The rover will set course to the drilling location in coming days.
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NASA Wins Prestigious Aerospace Industry Awards
05.09.13 - Two prominent aerospace industry organizations are recognizing the contributions of NASA, especially the achievements of the team that landed NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars in August, with coveted awards.
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Curiosity Wins National Air and Space Museum Trophy
04.25.13 - The team in charge of landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, managed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, received the museum's highest group honor.
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Three From JPL on Time Magazine 'Most Influential' List
04.18.13 - On a new list of the 100 most influential people on Earth, three work at the same California address, where they've led projects to study things that are not on Earth.
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Remaining Martian Atmosphere Still Dynamic
04.08.13 - Mars has lost much of its original atmosphere, but what's left remains quite active, recent findings from NASA's Mars rover Curiosity indicate. Rover team members reported diverse findings today at the European Geosciences Union 2013 General Assembly, in Vienna.
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Curiosity Resumes Science Investigations
03.25.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has resumed science investigations after recovery from a computer glitch that prompted the engineers to switch the rover to a redundant main computer on Feb. 28.
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Curiosity Rover Exits 'Safe Mode'
03.19.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has returned to active status and is on track to resume science investigations, following two days in a precautionary standby status, "safe mode."
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New 'Safe Mode' Status of Curiosity Expected to be Brief
03.18.13 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is expected to resume science investigations in a few days, as engineers quickly diagnosed a software issue that prompted the rover to put itself into a precautionary standby status over the weekend.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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.