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»» Opportunity in Good Health and Continues to Drive, Despite Lack of Downlink
[Thursday, July 29, 2010] Due to Odyssey's safing event none of the planned Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) downlink passes for this period occurred.
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»» Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity's View
[Thursday, July 29, 2010] In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that its twin rover, Spirit, has seen dozens of dust devils.
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»» Curiosity Rover Grows by Leaps and Bounds
[Wednesday, July 28, 2010] Talk about a growth-spurt. In one week, Curiosity grew by approximately 1 meter (3.5 feet) when spacecraft technicians and engineers attached the rover's neck and head (called the Remote Sensing Mast) to its body.
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»» NASA Opens Online Voting For Next Desert RATS Exploration Site
[Tuesday, July 27, 2010] NASA is inviting the public to choose an area in northern Arizona where explorers will conduct part of the annual Desert Research and Technology Studies, known as Desert RATS.
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»» NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map Ever
[Friday, July 23, 2010] A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the map via several websites and explore and survey the entire surface of the Red Planet.
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»» NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter
[Tuesday, July 13, 2010] NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provides viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet.
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»» NASA Instrument Will Identify Clues to Martian Past
[Tuesday, July 6, 2010] NASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping the mission achieve its goals.
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»» Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars
[Monday, June 28, 2010] When Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby.
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»» NASA and International Space Agencies Meet to Discuss Human and Robotic Space Exploration
[Monday, June 28, 2010] NASA senior managers met with their counterparts representing other space agencies at the National Harbor, Md., on June 23, to discuss globally-coordinated human and robotic space exploration.
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»» New Clues Suggest Wet Era on Early Mars was Global
[Friday, June 25, 2010] Minerals in northern Mars craters seen by two orbiters suggest that a phase in Mars' early history with conditions favorable to life occurred globally, not just in the south.
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»» Wet Era on Early Mars Was Global
[Friday, June 25, 2010] Conditions favorable to life may once have existed all over Mars. Detailed studies of minerals found inside craters show that liquid water was widespread, not only in the southern highlands, but also beneath the northern plains.
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»» Brown Team Finds Widespread Glacial Meltwater Valleys on Mars
[Thursday, June 24, 2010] Planetary scientists have uncovered telltale signs of water on Mars -- frozen and liquid -- in the earliest period of the Red Planet's history. A new claim, made public this month, is that a deep ocean covered some of the northern latitudes.
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»» NASA Scientists Dive Deep to Learn More About Life on the Moon, Mars
[Tuesday, June 22, 2010] NASA and the CSA invite journalists to observe the international, multidisciplinary Pavilion Lake Research Project team this summer as it studies and explores freshwater carbonate rock formations that thrive in Pavilion Lake, British Columbia, Canada.
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»» Water on Mars: Ten Years Ago on NASA Watch
[Tuesday, June 22, 2010] The fiction grew out of an accurate, if vague, item on the independent watchdog Web site, NASA Watch (www.nasawatch.com), late afternoon on 19 June.
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»» Seventh Graders Find a Cave on Mars
[Friday, June 18, 2010] California middle school students using the camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter have found lava tubes with one pit that appears to be a skylight to a cave.
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