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As expected, the Curiosity rover has drilled into a second target to extract material for analysis. The new target is close to the previous one, though it's a slightly different rock. Scientists are both expecting to find results similar to the previous ones and hoping for some differences as well. "Curiosity... |
21 May 2013
04:50 GMT |
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While Curiosity may be getting all the attention lately, for good reasons, it's only the last in a long series of rovers that have roamed extraterrestrial surfaces.
Through a simple but informative infographic, NASA points out just how far the small Opportunity rover has traveled in its decade of faithful serv... |
17 May 2013
19:01 GMT |
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Now that Curiosity is back in action, the team has been scouring for a new place to drill and recover samples which will tell us more about Mars' current makeup and its past.
Curiosity has already retrieved a rock sample and made some intriguing discoveries, and now a second location has been chosen.
Cumberla... |
10 May 2013
09:52 GMT |
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The Curiosity Mars rover has been sitting idly by for almost a month now, as the sun blocked direct communication from Earth to Mars. But now that communication is back up, Curiosity is back to work and will soon be embarking on a long journey, the longest to date, to get to her final destination at the base of Mou... |
8 May 2013
13:11 GMT |
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NASA has reestablished contact with the two rovers and the two orbiters it has on and around Mars. Because of a solar conjunction, two-way communications were blocked for a period in April.
During that time, the ground teams had no way of checking up on the rovers and orbiters or of retrieving info or sending out c... |
2 May 2013
13:31 GMT |
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Curiosity is taking somewhat of a break. It's not tired or anything, but the alignment of the Earth, Sun and Mars make it impossible to communicate with the rover.
Still, that doesn't mean it's sitting idly still (thought that's mostly what it's doing) or that there isn't new stuff com... |
25 April 2013
09:45 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux announces that it is adding a new set of options to its Curiosity title, allowing players to spend real world money in order to add layers of cubes to the game and make it harder to reach its center.
Various amounts of new cubes will come with bigger price tags and the same option can also be used to ... |
20 April 2013
18:21 GMT |
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Curiosity's been on Mars for a few months now. In that time, she made plenty of interesting and important discoveries and shot plenty of photos. But Curiosity was breaking new ground, so to speak, even before it landed on Mars. In fact, even its landing was a first. Previously, all Mars rovers were small enoug... |
4 April 2013
09:43 GMT |
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Panoramic images are becoming a popular hobby among some photographers. There's a race between the most dedicated to see who can create the largest and most detailed. But sometimes, size isn't everything, if you have exclusivity.
And, as far as Martian panoramas are concerned, Curiosity has that corner of... |
28 March 2013
12:05 GMT |
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Curiosity is headed towards a couple of months of rest, or rather inactivity. Maybe that means she will have more time to practice her greatest hobby, photography. Her shots certainly haven't disappointed so far.
After revealing earlier this week that analysis of rock samples show that the rover is sitting on ... |
16 March 2013
09:21 GMT |
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Curiosity, despite some setbacks, is making history again with its analysis of rock samples from Mars. Its internal laboratories showed that, at one point, conditions on Mars, at the very spot it's sitting at in Yellowknife Bay, were perfect for life, the type of life that thrives on Earth.
The water was pure, ... |
15 March 2013
15:51 GMT |
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NASA's Curiosity rover has found conditions very favorable to life on Mars, its analysis of rock samples led it to discover that, when the planet was wet, at least at its location, the conditions were perfect for bacterial life.
Curiosity's internal laboratory found sulfur, nitrogen, hydrogen, oxygen, phos... |
13 March 2013
04:04 GMT |
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Jason McDonald, the lead combat designer working on God of War: Ascension, says that the multiplayer side of the game was created because the team was curious about its potential rather than because the team wanted to tick another box on the cover.
The developer tells the official PlayStation Blog that "We tried out... |
8 March 2013
18:24 GMT |
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Curiosity had barely recovered from a memory problem when it was forced to go back to sleep as a dangerous solar storm was approaching Mars. The rover is now in stand-by again until the danger passes. "Storm's a-comin'! There's a solar storm heading for Mars. I'm going back to sleep to weather it... |
7 March 2013
04:31 GMT |
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NASA has announced that it has managed to get the Curiosity rover out of "safe mode" and into normal operation mode, after a switch between the two redundant computers aboard the rover. A memory issue caused the rover to switch over to its secondary main computer.
However, the switch also meant the rover went into "... |
5 March 2013
05:34 GMT |
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The Curiosity rover is marvel of technology, the pinnacle of human engineering achievement. It's also currently in "safe mode" due to some problems with its internal computer. NASA had to switch over to a backup computer because of the issue and put the rover in a minimal operational state while the problem is b... |
2 March 2013
11:21 GMT |
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Curiosity continues its quest of finding out whether Mars ever housed life by analyzing the first ever soil sample to be retrieved from below the surface of a planet, outside of Earth.
Curiosity used its drill for the first time recently to be able to retrieve material from inside a Martian rock. Now, its two main ... |
26 February 2013
14:11 GMT |
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NASA has confirmed that Curiosity has successfully recovered material from inside a Martian rock. The rover used its drill for the first time recently to bore a hole into a rock chosen for its peculiar makeup.
It then managed to retrieve material and place it inside its scoop to be analyzed. This is the first time ... |
21 February 2013
04:16 GMT |
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NASA has weighed in on the shiny object seen in some of the images Curiosity sent back from Mars. This is the second shiny object that caused a stir, the first was a piece of plastic fallen off of Curiosity herself.
NASA's experts have explained [PDF] that the latest shiny object, which looks like a door ... |
12 February 2013
07:11 GMT |
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After more than a month of preparations, Curiosity has finally drilled into a Martian rock and recovered samples to be analyzed. NASA labels this as the biggest achievement for the mission since landing on the surface of Mars. It's also the first time we've collected samples from below the surface of a fore... |
11 February 2013
05:23 GMT |
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Curiosity has now drilled into a Martian rock for the first time, though this too was a test and no usable sample was recovered.
Still, the rover bored about 2 centimeters (0.8 inch) into a rock using both percussion and rotation. It then retracted its drill and marveled at what it achieved.
Curiosity will have t... |
8 February 2013
04:41 GMT |
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While we wait for the results from the first test of Curiosity's rock drill, which will be the first time a probe recovered a sample from below the surface of a body in the solar system, NASA is keeping us busy with the first ever color image of Curiosity and the tracks it left in the Martian soil from above. T... |
1 February 2013
09:24 GMT |
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Curiosity is finally getting ready to poke a hole in a rock. It's been preparing for it for the last few weeks and NASA is probably eager to get it over with.
The Mars rover will test its rock drill for the first time, paving the way to new wonderful discoveries on what Mars is made up of and one step closer t... |
29 January 2013
07:21 GMT |
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One of the reasons why Curiosity can be so large and operate so many instruments is that it doesn't rely on solar power like the rovers that came before it. Because it has a nuclear power source built in, it can operate when it's all dusty, when the sun isn't that high up or even at night. Still, so ... |
24 January 2013
11:53 GMT |
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With the flurry of announcements and findings coming from Curiosity, it's easy to forget that there's another rover on Mars, Opportunity, one that's been around for quite a lot longer than Curiosity.
In fact, Opportunity is celebrating its 10th anniversary on the red planet this week, 10 years filled ... |
21 January 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Curiosity's findings are getting better and better and it has barely started to do any science. NASA has now picked a potential site to test its rock drill for the first time.
What's really interesting about the rock in question and the location is that scientists are seeing clear signs of water flowing on... |
16 January 2013
10:42 GMT |
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Curiosity is set to choose a lucky rock to be drilled for the first time. The drill is the Mars rover's last of ten instruments to be tested.
A suitable rock must be chosen to make sure not to damage the drill, which would be catastrophic in the multi-billion dollar mission, and that the samples recovered are ... |
14 January 2013
05:41 GMT |
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Curiosity is continuing its mission on Mars and, while it looks for a suitable location to test its rock drill for the first time, it managed to use a less impressive but equally important piece of equipment for the first time, its brush.
The brush is designed to help clear away the Martian dust to reveal the rocks... |
8 January 2013
10:01 GMT |
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Curiosity is on the move again, after spending the holidays taking shots of its surroundings. Granted, it hasn't gotten very far as it's still looking for a spot to test its rock drill for the first time. During its photoshoot, Curiosity uncovered an interesting object, similar to the one that caused a stir... |
5 January 2013
02:23 GMT |
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A meteorite that landed in the Sahara desert has scientists all giddy since this is no ordinary space rock. It originated from Mars, it's two billion years old and, best of all, it's full of water. Well, "full" of water considering that it's a piece of Mars that traveled through space for who knows h... |
4 January 2013
05:11 GMT |
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Scientists are well known for their restless minds and for their eagerness to constantly push the boundaries of human knowledge.
Therefore, it need not surprise anybody that these past twelve months were filled with major scientific breakthroughs, some of which can be labeled as “cool,” to say the leas... |
30 December 2012
15:41 GMT |
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Curiosity is all the way on Mars, doing science even during the holidays, so it may be a bit hard to check in at its location. But you can still get a coveted Curiosity badge in Foursquare by visiting several science-related locations.
NASA has teamed up with Foursquare to make it possible for users to earn the dis... |
28 December 2012
07:11 GMT |
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NASA is taking a break during the holidays, but Curiosity isn't. While much of the team will be spending some time off, Curiosity will continue its mission running a pre-scripted sequence of events with only a handful of people monitoring to check whether Curiosity hasn't run amok on Mars without adult supe... |
27 December 2012
08:44 GMT |
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YouTube is looking back at the year that's almost over and highlighting the videos that have gotten the most attention.
The number one video of the year is easy to guess, it's the one video that has broken all YouTube records and did it in just six months.
PSY's Gangnam Style exploded onto the scen... |
18 December 2012
09:01 GMT |
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Curiosity has been on the move for a few days now, heading towards the Yellowknife Bay region, where it will get to test its rock drill for the first time. On its way though, it stopped at a couple of interesting places and, you guessed it, snapped some more photos.
One of the more interesting places Curiosity visit... |
17 December 2012
08:01 GMT |
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Curiosity is on the move again and is now on its fourth day of non-stop trekking. Well, almost non-stop, Curiosity is easily distracted and it did make one stop to photograph some interesting rocks, like any kid with a new camera would.
The photos it shot of the Shaler rock formation are in the gallery below. Despi... |
12 December 2012
10:01 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux’s original Curiosity game is now at version 2.0 which 22Cans is very proud of. According to the development house, “Curiosity V2 is what the experiment always should have been.” Curiosity is a highly original game that has players worldwide collectively chipping away at the layers of... |
11 December 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Astronauts could survive long-time Mars missions without being affected by a dangerous amount of radiation, new Curiosity rover findings show. The new study suggests that an astronaut can undertake a mission consisting of a 360-day on-board journey: 180 days to arrive on Mars, 180 days to get back to Earth, and a 60... |
5 December 2012
05:49 GMT |
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NASA's Curiosity rover found chemical particles and signs of possible organic compounds that could allow rudimentary life forms to develop on Mars. Signs of water, sulfur and chlorine along with carbon-rich chemical compounds have been extracted from the dirt analyzed in Curiosity's on-board laboratory, S... |
4 December 2012
05:04 GMT |
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NASA's rover Curiosity registered one year of adventures off Earth on Monday, November 26.
Being sent from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida last year on November 26, Curiosity had a fairly curious eighth-month trip through space after which it landed on Martian surface on August 5 in a complicate... |
29 November 2012
03:47 GMT |
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Peter Molyneux, the man behind the new Project Godus, says that many of the mechanics of the game are linked to those seen in Curiosity: What’s Inside the Cube?, the first game that he created with his new studio 22Cans.The mobile game allows players to tap a huge cube in order to sculpt it and eliminate layers... |
23 November 2012
05:43 GMT |
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Curiosity rover sent by NASA to scrutinize Mars a while ago, has made a fairly promising discovery, according to NASA officials, although not completely decrypted yet.
No public statement of what the object could represent exactly has been made yet, but an announcement made yesterday by the U.S. National Public Rad... |
21 November 2012
05:53 GMT |
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Despite the success of video games as a genre, the media form has failed to reach a wider audience in the last few years, according to one of the most celebrated figures in the development industry.Peter Molyneux, currently part of indie outfit 22 Cans, tells an audience at the Montreal International Game Summit... |
15 November 2012
19:41 GMT |
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Curiosity is staying busy on Mars. It's done with its second soil analysis with CheMin, it's getting ready for its fifth scoop from which samples will be analyzed by CheMin and, for the first time, by the SAM instrument. Between all that, it still manages to find time to snap photos of itself and its surrou... |
8 November 2012
15:31 GMT |
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Ever since it landed on Mars, Curiosity has been running on Mars time. That's why everything it does is listed as happening on "Sol 64" or similar. Well, it kind of has to run on Mars time, with it being on Mars and all. But the people back at NASA, i.e. Earth, don't.And starting now, they won't, thoug... |
7 November 2012
16:31 GMT |
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Curiosity, the first of 22 experiments from the legendary designer Peter Molyneux, is out for iPhone and iPad. A block-breaking game that holds a life-changing mystery at its literal core, Curiosity is as much cooperative as it is competitive.
Install Curiosity now on your iDevice and you’ll instantly join tho... |
6 November 2012
07:44 GMT |
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Curiosity is staying busy, all by herself on Mars, scooping sand, analyzing it and doing a bunch of other boring but necessary "work-related" stuff.
But every once in a while, whenever she gets a free moment, she gets to do what she actually likes, take photos of the places she's visiting, like any 21st centur... |
2 November 2012
16:41 GMT |
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Curiosity has completed its first analysis of Martian soil and the results are interesting, though not particularly surprising.
The first results of the analysis with the CheMin instrument aboard the Mars rover indicate that the dust and sand of Mars, at least at Curiosity's current location, is made up of vol... |
31 October 2012
06:31 GMT |
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Curiosity is continuing to play in the sand at Rocknest. While its CheMin and SAM instruments are getting a test run, analyzing samples of sand and, in the case of SAM, the Martian atmosphere, Curiosity is using its free hand to look around some more. Last time around, it scoured the more distant locations and put ... |
30 October 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Curiosity is moving ahead with its planned mission, it has now collected a fourth scoop of sand for analysis, this one will be used by Curiosity's Chemistry and Mineralogy (CheMin) instrument.
Curiosity has been using the sand to scrub the instruments and remove any impurities before sending anything to be an... |
23 October 2012
05:13 GMT |
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