NASA Still Won’t Look For Existing Life on Mars (update), earlier post Keith’s 31 July note: I obviously expected Jim Green to answer in the same cautious way that NASA […]
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JWST's Latest Victim: Shutting Down Opportunity
Mars Rover Opportunity Faces New Threat: Budget Ax, Discovery “NASA’s baseline budget for the year beginning Oct. 1 pulls the plug on the 10-year-old Mars rover Opportunity, newly released details […]
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China Is Heading Back to the Moon
China’s Chang’e-3 Heads For The Moon (with video), SpaceRef “China’s Chang’e-3 lunar rover Yutu (“Jade rabbit”) left Earth today aboard a Long March IIIB rocket today. Liftoff occurred at 12:30 […]
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Mars 2020 Rover Effort Begins
NASA Solicitation: Science Definition Team for the 2020 Mars Rover “The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) invites scientists, technologists, and other qualified and interested individuals at U.S. institutions and […]
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Once Again NASA Has Two Fully Active Rovers on Mars
NASA Mars Rover Begins Driving at Bradbury Landing “NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has begun driving from its landing site, which scientists announced today they have named for the late author […]
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Twin Towers on Mars
Mars Rover Opportunity Update: September 01-07, 2011 “Photo taken by Mars Rover Opportunity of itself on 11 Sep 2011 showing piece of metal taken from the Twin Towers – with […]
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Farewell Spirit
NASA Concludes Attempts To Contact Mars Rover Spirit “NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated on March 22, 2010. A […]
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Surface Water Found On Mars?
NASA’s Mars Rover Spirit Finds Evidence of Subsurface Water “The ground where NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled […]