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Mars Armada Resumes Contact with NASA – Ready to Rock ‘n Roll n’ Drill

May 2, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter After taking a well deserved and unavoidable break during April’s solar conjunction with Mars that blocked two way communication with Earth, NASA’s powerful Martian fleet of orbiters and rovers have reestablished contact and are alive and well and ready to Rock [...]

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Soviet Lander Spotted by Mars Orbiter

April 11, 2013

On May 28, 1971, the Soviet Union launched the Mars 3 mission which, like its previously-launched and ill-fated sibling Mars 2, consisted of an orbiter and lander destined for the Red Planet. Just over six months later on December 2, 1971, Mars 3 arrived at Mars — five days after Mars 2 crashed. The Mars [...]

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Terran Fleet at Mars Takes a Break for Conjunction – Enjoy the Video and Parting View

April 6, 2013

Earth’s science invasion fleet at Mars is taking a break from speaking with their handlers back on Earth. Why ? Because as happens every 26 months, the sun has gotten directly in the way of Mars and Earth. Earth, Mars and the Sun are lined up in nearly a straight line. The geometry is normal [...]

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Curiosity’s Landing Leftovers

March 2, 2013

During its “seven minutes of terror” landing on August 6, 2012, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory dropped quite a few things down onto the Martian surface: pieces from the cruise stage, a heat shield, a parachute, the entry capsule’s backshell, a sky crane, one carefully-placed rover (obviously) and also eight tungsten masses — weights used for [...]

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First Color Image of Curiosity’s Tracks from Orbit

January 31, 2013

HiRISE image of Curiosity’s tracks, landing zone and the MSL rover at John Klein outcrop (NASA/JPL/University of Arizona) As Curiosity prepares for the historic first drilling operation on Mars, the HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured an image of it from 271 km (169 miles) up, along with twin lines of tracks and [...]

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