Items tagged with Curiosity
NASA’s Curiosity rover is wrapping up its time in the Mars Gediz Vallis channel, and is making its way to an area of the Martian surface referred as the Boxwork. The Boxwork feature was first viewed by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)...
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From intense solar storms, to helping reveal the history of the Red Planet, the Mars Curiosity rover has led a very interesting life thus far. Now, a new finding has left NASA scientists shocked after the Curiosity rover cracked open a...
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NASA turned two twelve-hour black and white videos from its Mars Curiosity rover into time-lapse videos of what a Martian day looks like. The two videos were taken by Curiosity’s Hazard-Avoidance Cameras, or Hazcams.
The two black and...
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NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has spent an incredible 4,000 sols (Martian days) on the Red Planet since it first landed on the Martian surface in 2012. Curiosity completed its primary mission objective in 2014 and is still going...
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In a new paper, scientists do not rule out that horizontal protrusions that were photographed by NASA's Curiosity rover could have come from an alien spacecraft. The image in question was taken by Curiosity between sol 3786 and 3800 during...
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The Curiosity Mars rover now has a license to shoot at will -- the rover can now autonomously target rocks without human permission or control. Curiosity uses ChemCam, a software developed at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena...
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How do you land a car-sized rover on the planet Mars? NASA answered that question with eight years of careful planning and around nine months of space travel culminating in the most advanced rover ever touching down on the Red Planet last...
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