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NASA Announces Aug. 27 Mars News Conference
08.24.12 - NASA will hold a televised news conference at 2 p.m. PDT (5 p.m.EDT), Monday, Aug. 27, at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., about the activities of its Curiosity rover mission on Mars.
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Curiosity Broadcasts Images to Times Square
08.22.12 - The Toshiba Vision screen in New York City's Times Square is giving visitors to New York City the opportunity to see photos from NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars.
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NASA Mars Rover Begins Driving at Bradbury Landing
08.22.12 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, which scientists announced today they have named for the late author Ray Bradbury.
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NASA to Hold Curiosity Rover Media Briefing Aug. 22
08.21.12 - NASA will hold a televised news conference at 11:30 a.m. PDT (2:30 p.m. EDT) on Wednesday, Aug. 22, at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to update media on the progress of its Curiosity rover.
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NASA's Curiosity Studies Mars Surroundings, Nears Drive
08.21.12 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has been investigating the Martian weather around it and the soil beneath it, as its controllers prepare for the car-size vehicle's first drive on Mars.
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First Words of Safe Landing on Mars
08.21.12 - The entry, descent and landing of NASA’s new Mars rover was full of unknowns – including when was the right time to declare Curiosity safe and sound on the surface.
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Curiosity Stretches its Arm
08.20.12 - NASA's Mars rover Curiosity flexed its robotic arm today for the first time since before launch in November 2011.
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Rover's Laser Instrument Zaps First Martian Rock
08.19.12 - Today, NASA's Mars rover Curiosity fired its laser for the first time on Mars, using the beam from a science instrument to interrogate a fist-size rock called "Coronation."
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NASA Announces Curiosity Rover Media Events Schedule
08.19.12 - 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 Curiosity Team Pinpoints Site for First Drive
08.17.12 - The scientists and engineers of NASA's Curiosity rover mission have selected the first driving destination for their one-ton, six-wheeled mobile Mars laboratory.
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NASA to Host Curiosity Rover Teleconference Aug. 17
08.16.12 - 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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Orbiter Views NASA's New Mars Rover in Color
08.14.12 - 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
08.13.12 - 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
08.13.12 - 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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Curiosity Sends High-Resolution Color Images
08.11.12 - 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
08.10.12 - 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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Timeline of Milestones During Curiosity's Landing
08.09.12 - 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
08.09.12 - 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
08.08.12 - 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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Orbiter Images NASA's Martian Landscape Additions
08.07.12 - 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.