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Curiosity Demonstrates New Capability to Scan 360 Degrees for Life Giving Water – and is Widespread

March 18, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter The science team guiding NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover have demonstrated a new capability that significantly enhances the robots capability to scan her surroundings for signs of life giving water – from a distance. And the rover appears to [...]

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NASA Robot arrives at ‘New’ Landing Site holding Clues to Ancient Water Flow on Mars

September 3, 2011

Opportunity has begun a whole new mission at the vast expanse of Endeavour Crater promising a boatload of new science discoveries. Scientists directing NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover gushed with excitement as they announced that the aging robot has discovered a rock with a composition unlike anything previously explored on the Red Planet’s surface – since [...]

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Mars May Have Once Been a Cold, Wet World

August 31, 2011

Many planetary scientists suspect that Mars, now cold and very dry, once had a liquid water ocean covering parts of its surface. But this does not necessarily mean that the Red Planet was ever a tropical paradise… a recent paper by a team of astrobiologists suggests that Mars was much more bitter than balmy. Remove [...]

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Opportunity Arrives at Huge Martian Crater with Superb Science and Scenic Outlook

August 24, 2011

NASA’s Mars Opportunity rover has finally arrived at the huge Martian crater named Endeavour that simultaneously offers a mother lode of superb scenery and potentially the “Mother of all Martian Science”. The epic journey took nearly three years. The intrepid robogirl is now climbing uphill on a Scientific quest that may well produce bountiful results [...]

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