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Curiosity Completes Crucial Course Correction – 1 Week from Mars !
Image Caption: Course correcting thruster firings on July 29 successfully placed Curiosity on target to touchdown beside Mount Sharp inside…
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T Minus 9 Days – Mars Orbiters Now in Place to Relay Critical Curiosity Landing Signals
Image Caption: NASA’s Mars Odyssey will relay near real time signals of this artist's concept depicting the moment that NASA's…
Will Curiosity Look for Life on Mars? Not Exactly…
"Curiosity is not a life detection mission. We're not actually looking for life and we don't have the ability to…
Flashback: 1978 NASA Film Shows Viking Discoveries
In what's a sort of foreshadowing of the upcoming August 5 MSL landing, which is being called "seven minutes of…
Latest from Mars: Massive Polar Ice Cliffs, Northern Dunes, Gullied Craters
Several gorgeous images are in this week's update from the HiRISE camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This lovely…
Latest Panoramic View from Mars Rover
What’s a Mars rover to do when there’s not enough power to rove? Take pictures. LOTS of pictures! This wonderful…
Integrating New Concepts for Entry, Descent and Landing for Future Human Missions to Mars
Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Andy Tomaswick, an electrical engineer who follows space science and technology. One…
New “Flying Tea Kettle” Could Get Us To Mars in Weeks, Not Months
At 54.6 million km away at its closest, the fastest travel to Mars from Earth using current technology (and no…
NASA Holding Big Events for Curiosity Rover Landing; Register for Chance to Attend
It’s a big rover, so nothing but a big event is appropriate. NASA is going to hold the first-ever multi-center…