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Landing instruments such as the twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the Phoenix Mars Lander on the surface of the Red Planet is one thing, but setting down the one-tonne Curiosity (MSL) is another challenge altogether. Undoubtedly, future landings will aim at setting down even larger crafts, so the current a... |
12 August 2009
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The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the European Space Agency (ESA) have recently unveiled their joint plans of exploring Mars between 2015 and 2020. Under the agreement, ESA is to build a trace-gas orbiter, a spacecraft able to detect gas plumes emanating from the Red Planet and to image ... |
6 August 2009
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The future of missions to the Red Planet will most likely be decided in Great Britain this week, at the meeting between the American space agency NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA). Held at the University of Plymouth, the conference, which will take place from on Monday to Wednesday, will be attended by some 20... |
29 June 2009
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The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission to the Red Planet features the largest rover ever built, aptly named Curiosity. With dimensions comparable to those of a small car, the new robot is currently undergoing preparation stages at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, on schedule for its ... |
22 June 2009
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The ambitious design of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) has sparked, since it first appeared, criticism as to the number of instruments it includes, and also on account of its size. Quite simply put, the MSL, which has recently been appropriately named Curiosity, is the largest rover ever to be sent to the Red Plan... |
16 June 2009
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After a contest that lasted between November 2008 and January 25th, 2009, the American space agency finally declared a winner, and announced the name of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission to the Red Planet, which is scheduled for take-off in 2011. The winning submission came from 12-year-old Clara Ma, a studen... |
28 May 2009
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NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) is currently under intense fire from critics, who say that the project has already exceeded more than 4 times the initial sum of money granted for the project, and that the new rover attempts to include way too many new technologies for the current stage of development. At th... |
11 February 2009
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The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, scheduled to take place in 2011, still lacks a proper name, the likes of NASA's existing Martian rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. In schools across the United States, every kid between the ages of 5 and 18 can submit an essay, saying what name they would like for the rov... |
24 January 2009
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The Mars Science Laboratory, a small SUV-sized rover that is supposed to be the most advanced device to perform science experiments on the red planet's surface, has been delayed for two more years. The rover is already way over its initial budget, and the current delay will add even more to the mission cost... |
5 December 2008
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American president-elect Barack Obama's recently chosen NASA transition team has come up with a long list of questions (five pages of them) for the agency. If the implications behind the questionnaire addressed to the agency's officials are speculated upon, the fate of some of NASA's most important pro... |
4 December 2008
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The most advanced rover ever to roam the Martian surface, the Mars Science Laboratory, is still undergoing final development stages at NASA. It has already surpassed the cost that the agency initially estimated for its building operations by a hefty amount, now engulfing more than $1.5 billion, with a final estimated... |
24 November 2008
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As the next NASA mission is scheduled for launch next year, scientists are struggling to choose the best option for a landing site on Mars. So far, they have managed to rule out one more of the suggested sites, thus limiting the options down to just four. The Mars Scientific Laboratory (MSL) rover is supposed to prov... |
22 November 2008
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The next mission on Mars is going to be the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), slated to launch in autumn next year, as a successor to the Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and to the recently ended Phoenix Lander. Among the main goals of the MSL will be to find traces of organic compounds on the Martian surface... |
21 November 2008
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Detecting water has technologically advanced a long way from using “magic” sticks. Modern science allows using bouncing neutrons in order to detect underground crystal structures, mineral and oil reserves, as well as water presence, in any of its forms. A device capable of doing just that has been develo... |
14 November 2008
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Forget about sending a nuclear powered rover to the surface of the Red Planet, NASA officials say! The mission may stop right before it even stars due to related costs rising at an alarming rate. The mission is dead in the water since previous tests have shown that the current design of the vehicle, which is supposed... |
29 February 2008
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