[Wednesday, December 1, 2010] More than one million people have watched assembly and testing of NASA's next Mars rover via a live webcam since it went online in October.

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[Thursday, December 2, 2010] Newly released images from 340 recent observations of Mars by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show details of a wide assortment of Martian environments.

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[Thursday, December 9, 2010] By the middle of next week, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history.

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[Thursday, December 9, 2010] New research reveals that the abundance of metal-loving, elements like gold and platinum found in the mantles of Earth, the Moon and Mars were delivered by massive impactors during the final phase of planet formation over 4.5 billion years ago.

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[Friday, December 10, 2010] There is no place on Earth that is a perfect copycat of Mars as it is now, or as it was at any specific point in the past. But scientists suggest Earth has little versions of Mars as it might have been over decades.

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[Saturday, December 11, 2010] Opportunity passed 26 km (16 mi) of odometry as she approaches Santa Maria crater on her way to Endeavour crater. Santa Maria is an approximately 80m (262 ft) diameter crater that Opportunity will investigate before proceeding toward Endeavour.

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[Saturday, December 11, 2010] The small crater embedded in the northwestern rim of the Schiaparelli impact basin features prominently in this new image from ESA's Mars Express. All around is evidence for past water and the great martian winds that periodically blow.

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[Tuesday, December 14, 2010] Every year, the President submits his budget request for the federal government to Congress. This year, along with the President's budget request for NASA, we will be submitting our new NASA Strategic Plan, which guides the work we will perform.

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[Thursday, December 16, 2010] A Lockheed Martin-built spacecraft, NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter has worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history.

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[Thursday, December 16, 2010] NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments.

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[Friday, December 24, 2010] A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover's-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun.

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