Keith’s note: NASA currently has two droids at work on Mars: Perseverance and its Older sibling Curiosity. Their common task is to perform astrobiology and astrogeology exploration activities on Mars. […]
Curiosity Rover
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JPL Curiosity Birthday Special
A Year of Curiosity on Mars [Watch], NASA “Curiosity Rover team members at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., re-live the dramatic Aug. 6, 2012 landing and the […]
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NASA's Throwing Curiosity a First Year Anniversary Party
NASA Curiosity Rover Approaches First Anniversary on Mars, NASA “NASA’s Curiosity rover will mark one year on Mars next week and has already achieved its main science goal of revealing […]
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Billion-Pixel View of Mars
Billion-Pixel View of Mars Comes From Curiosity Rover, NASA JPL “A billion-pixel view from the surface of Mars, from NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity, offers armchair explorers a way to examine […]
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Curiosity Rover Moving On
NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover Nears Turning Point, NASA “NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission is approaching its biggest turning point since landing its rover, Curiosity, inside Mars’ Gale Crater last summer. […]
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Curiosity Rover Back at Work Before Comm Block Sets In
CuriousMars: Triple Sample Set for SAM, as NASA Cheers Revived Plutonium Production “Restarting science operations after 3 weeks of computer problems, the Mars rover Curiosity will be using its robotic […]
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Big Mars News Next Week?
CuriousMars: Rover’s SAM organic and CheMin Labs Outrun Computer Snafu For Extra Rock Analysis, SpaceRef “Scientists with the $2.5 billion Mars rover Curiosity will reveal potentially historic discoveries about Mars […]
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Mars Continues to Surprise Us
CuriousMars: SAM and CheMin Ace Rock Analysis, Ready for More, SpaceRef “The Mars rover Curiosity is this week in the midst of potentially historic discoveries as the full range of […]
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Testing for Mars Organics
CuriousMars: Rover Poised to Test For Organics Where Habitability Potential is High, SpaceRef “The Mars rover Curiosity’s team is beginning to amass enough diverse science data to actively consider whether […]
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Curiosity Rover Drilling Debate
CuriousMars: Scientists Disagree on Timing of Departure from Drilling Site, SpaceRef “The $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover is beginning detailed analysis of the first subsurface rock sample acquired […]