Mission to Mt. Sharp – Habitability, Preservation of Organics, and Environmental Transitions Senior Review Proposal Sections 1 and 2 April 2014 Keith’s note: Jim Green just made a point of […]
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NASA SMD PAO's Dysfunctional Telecons
NASA Holds Teleconference to Discuss Science Campaign of Curiosity Mars Rover Keith’s note: NASA SMD PAO’s Dwayne Brown continues to refuse to respond to media inquiries from last month’s Mars […]
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SMD Wants To Talk About MSL Science (Or Lack Thereof)
NASA Holds Teleconference to Discuss Science Campaign of Curiosity Mars Rover “NASA will host a teleconference at 1 p.m. EDT Thursday, Sept. 11, to discuss mission status and the future […]
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NASA Requires You To Pay To See Mars Curiosity Results (update)
Keith’s note: NASA has spent $2 billion on Curiosity. But NASA allows researchers to post the research results – results paid for by taxpayers – behind a paywall at Science. […]
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NASA is Unable (and Unwilling) To Coordinate Its Websites
Keith’s note: At bottom of this release “Mars Rover Teams Dub Sites in Memory of Bruce Murray“, JPL has included “For more information about Opportunity, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://www.nasa.gov/rovers and […]
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NASA Hides Science Behind Paywalls
Water for Future Mars Astronauts?, LANL “Perhaps most notable among findings from the ChemCam team is that all of the dust and fine soil contains small amounts of water.” A […]
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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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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 […]