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A slight miscalculation on the part of engineers working on the next Mars-bound NASA rover caused a crane lift to handle the back shell instrument improperly. A review of the affected areas revealed that the cover was fine, and that it had suffered no permanent damage. The incident occurred at the NASA Kennedy Space ... |
25 May 2011
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Officials with the American space agency are proud to announce that the next rover to be sent on Mars is now nearing completion at a NASA integration facility. The robot is now almost done, having already undergone a massive number of tests to assess its performances.
Little by little, engineers have brought the ... |
7 April 2011
02:29 GMT |
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Experts at NASA announce that an effort to produce alternative cameras for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity has been halted, due to time constraints. The existing cameras were also determined to be more than capable of fulfilling the science goals the robot has set up.
The Mast Camera (Mastcam) i... |
26 March 2011
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The next mission scheduled to launch for Mars will this month get a taste of its future home, inside a specially-designed simulation chamber at a NASA lab in California. Throughout the trials, experts will keep track of how the new rover behaves under pressure. Throughout March, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will... |
21 March 2011
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Later this year, NASA is scheduled to launch its next flagship mission to the Red Planet. However, experts are now raising concerns that some of the materials on the rover may start to leak methane, which would confuse the sensitive sensors on the robot into giving false readings. One of the primary areas of the miss... |
14 March 2011
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Later this year, the American space agency is scheduled to launch its newest planetary exploration rover, called the Mars Science Laboratory. Since the mission does not yet have an official landing site, experts will hold a fifth and final workshop in May, in a bid to settle on a location. At this point, the NASA Mar... |
11 March 2011
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Officials at the American space agency say that the Mars Science Laboratory now costs more than $2.5 billion, hundreds of millions of dollars more than initially estimated when the program began, in 2003.While the sum may seem staggering at first, what needs to be considered here is the fact that the machine includes... |
4 February 2011
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announced the successful completion of the first-ever assessments of the Sky Crane, the novel rover-deployment system that will be inaugurated as the rover Curiosity reaches Mars. The mission, scheduled to blast off to the Red Planet late... |
21 January 2011
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All space exploration missions headed towards the Red Planet for the last 40 years or so have been focused on recreating the route that water took on Mars billions of years ago. Astrobiologists now agree that it's time to shift the focus of this exploration effort to finding signs of past life there.
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19 January 2011
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The next-generation Martian rover that NASA will deploy on the Red Planet, called Curiosity, apparently inspired the same feeling in the general public as well. After a live webcam showing work being carried out to construct it was brought online, more than 1 million people flocked to log on. The “Curiosity Cam... |
14 December 2010
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When the Mars Science Laboratory rover, now called Curiosity, will roam the surface of our neighboring planet, it will provide daily weather bulletins for mission controllers on Earth. The readings will be taken by a Spanish instrument that will go on the explorations robot. In addition to searching for signs of past... |
1 December 2010
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Investigators say that it's high time to begin a serious search for sings of present or past life on Mars. Landers and rovers we've sent there have shown us so much of how the planet works, but now it's time to start searching for the thing we set out to find in our space explorations – life some... |
11 November 2010
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For the first time in space exploration, a rover bound for the Red Planet will deliver a radiation detector on the surface of Mars. This will allow experts to determine whether the radiations prospective human astronauts there will be subjected to are harmful or not. The instrument will fly to our neighboring planet ... |
10 November 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that one of their team has just finished assembling one of the instrument suites that will go on NASA's next Mars rover, called Curiosity.The Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite has finished undergoing relevant testings, and is now on track towards being... |
9 October 2010
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Anticipating for the arrival of the next NASA spacecraft on the Red Planet, the MRO has begun a four-week-long study on the Martian atmosphere. The study is meant to inform mission controllers about the conditions that the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission will face in about a year, when it's due to arrive a... |
1 October 2010
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, who are in charge of building the next NASA rover that will go on Mars, have just received one of the key elements of the new robot – the ChemCam. This is an instrument of a class that has never flown to space before. It will go on the Mars Science Laboratory rover... |
22 September 2010
06:23 GMT |
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The Mars Science Laboratory is the next rover mission that NASA has in store for the Red Planet. Though the agency has built exploration rovers before, this one really takes home the prize. The machine, which is also known by its stage name Curiosity, is scheduled to be completed by next year, when it's supposed... |
17 September 2010
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Officials at NASA announce that the American space agency's next Mars-bound rover, called Curiosity, is currently making impressive strides towards being ready on time for its planned launch date. The experts say that the machine, which recently managed to achieve another important milestone when it moved its ro... |
14 September 2010
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New data seems to support the hypothesis which states that traces of organic building blocks may exist in the Martian soil, despite data provided by the Viking missions to the contrary.According to the investigation, it would appear that the landers may have had a negative influence on the areas where they touched do... |
9 September 2010
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For the first time ever, researchers in charge of handling the construction of the next American rover on Mars announce that the robotic arm on the explorer has begun moving. This is tremendous news for all the teams involved in the construction process, as it represents an important milestone in the mission's t... |
6 September 2010
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce that the Curiosity rover finally managed to spin its wheels for the first time. The robot, currently under construction, is destined to be the American space agency's next mission to the Red Planet, and is scheduled for launch... |
24 July 2010
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Next year, the American space agency plans to launch the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover towards the Red Planet, in hopes of getting it there in 2012. Though a large number of instruments and other components that are supposed to go on the new machine were already created, the mission control team has yet to deci... |
16 June 2010
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Next year will see the launch of the American space agency's latest rover mission to the Red Planet. Scheduled for arrival on Mars in August 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) will be one of the most advanced robotic explorers ever constructed, and sent to other worlds. It will be powered by a nuclear engin... |
12 June 2010
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Experts at the American space agency announce that they have decided on a data for the launch of their newest Martian rover. Dubbed that Mars Express Laboratory (MSL), or Curiosity, the instrument will be about the size of a small car, and will weigh more than a ton. It will employ a revolutionary landing system, and... |
24 May 2010
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The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover, now called Curiosity, is one of NASA's most advanced and ambitious space exploration missions and also one of the most challenging. A number of innovative technologies have been used on the MSL for the first time, and everyone involved in its construction is anxious to se... |
14 April 2010
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Officials at Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. (MSSS) announce that they have just delivered the last two of four advanced cameras destined for the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover. The mission, which is managed by experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, represents the next exp... |
7 April 2010
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Over the past few years, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission has been battered by various technical difficulties, cost overruns and other hurdles. Engineers have been working diligently and purposefully around these constraints, and currently things are finally looking up for the team. But recently, it has disc... |
31 March 2010
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The new NASA rover Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), now called Curiosity, will undoubtedly change the way people look at space exploration. The $2 billion piece of equipment weighs in excess of a ton, and is scheduled to be delivered on the surface of the Red Planet in 2013. Experts say that safely touching down such a... |
18 February 2010
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At times, when looking back to the incredible trek Spirit and Opportunity have had on the Martian surface, it becomes difficult to realize that these enduring robots are in fact geological tools. They were sent there to look at Martian rocks, polish them with their onboard abrasion tools, and then analyze them as bes... |
17 February 2010
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For 2012, NASA plans to send a mobile laboratory to Mars, in an attempt to determine whether life ever existed on the Red Planet, or if it's still there today. Officials at the space agency have now announced that the new experiment has been accepted aboard the laboratory. Developed by experts at the NASA Goddar... |
6 January 2010
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The future NASA rover on the Red Planet, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), is undoubtedly one of the most complex exploration robots ever devised. It features a host of scientific instruments that can look for signs of life on Mars and even analyze rock samples for traces of former organisms. However, the mission wa... |
17 December 2009
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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
14:01 GMT |
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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
10:16 GMT |
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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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