Neil Tyson "we do not have ticker tape parades for robots" Oops. Guess he missed Curiosity in the Inaugural Parade. — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) October 23, 2013
Curiosity
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Autonomous Navigation Enabled on Curiosity
Curiosity Rover Debuts Autonomous Navigation “NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has used autonomous navigation for the first time, a capability that lets the rover decide for itself how to drive safely […]
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NASA Needs to Think Beyond The Mohawk Guy
Dr. John Holdren, Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, 3rd from left, meets with members of the NASA Mars Science Laboratory team on Thursday, August 1, 2013 […]
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Ancient Mars Could Have Supported Life
Curiosity Finds Conditions Once Suited for Ancient Life on Mars “An analysis of a rock sample collected by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows ancient Mars could have supported living microbes. Scientists […]
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MSL Enters Safe Mode
Mars Curiosity Rover Enters Safe Mode “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 […]
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Forgetting/Ignoring Space Drilling History
NASA: Red Planet looks a little gray inside, USA Today “This is the first time any robot has drilled into a rock on another planet,” says mission sample chief Louise […]
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MSL: No Organics, Possible Perchlorate – Nothing Earthshaking
Curiosity Analyzes First Martian Soil Samples “We have no definitive detection of Martian organics at this point, but we will keep looking in the diverse environments of Gale Crater,” said […]
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Backpedaling on Mars
Undisclosed Finding by Mars Rover Fuels Intrigue, NY Times “Guy Webster, a spokesman for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., which operates Curiosity, said the findings would be “interesting” […]
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NASA Remains Silent on MSL News
Keith’s note: Last week NASA PAO was telling the media that there would be an announcement (of what they did not know) of MSL results at the AGU meeting tomorrow […]
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Methane on Mars Announcement Today? (update)
NASA Hosts Nov. 2 Teleconference About Mars Rover Progress “NASA will host a media teleconference at 10 a.m. PDT (1 p.m. EDT) on Friday, Nov. 2, to provide an update […]