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2011: Top Stories from the Best Year Ever for NASA Planetary Science!
[/caption] A year ago, 2011 was proclaimed as the “Year of the Solar System” by NASA’s Planetary Science division. And…
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Curiosity Starts First Science on Mars Sojurn – How Lethal is Space Radiation to Life’s Survival
[/caption] Barely two weeks into the 8 month journey to the Red Planet, NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover…
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Flawlessly On Course Curiosity Cruising to Mars – No Burn Needed Now
[/caption] Curiosity’s interplanetary injection was spot on ! - following her Nov. 26 blastoff aboard the 2 million pound thrust…
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NASA Planetary Science Trio Honored as ‘Best of What’s New’ in 2011- Curiosity/Dawn/MESSENGER
[/caption] A trio of NASA’s Planetary Science mission’s - Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), Dawn and MESSENGER - has been honored…
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Curiosity Mars Rover Launch Gallery – Photos and Videos
[/caption] NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover is speeding away from Earth on a 352-million-mile (567-million-kilometer) journey to Mars…
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Curiosity Majestically Blasts off on ‘Mars Trek’ to ascertain ‘Are We Alone?’
[/caption] Atop a towering inferno of sparkling flames and billowing ash, Humankinds millennial long quest to ascertain “Are We Alone…
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Curiosity Rover ‘Locked and Loaded’ for Quantum Leap in Pursuit of Martian Microbial Life
[/caption] NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover, the most technologically complex and scientifically capable robot built by humans to explore the surface…
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Curiosity Rover Bolted to Atlas Rocket – In Search of Martian Microbial Habitats
[/caption] Only time now stands in the way of Curiosity’s long awaited date with the Red Planet. NASA’s next, and…
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Closing the Clamshell on a Martian Curiosity
[/caption] Curiosity’s clamshell has been closed. And it won’t open up again until a few minutes after she blasts off…
NASA Robot arrives at ‘New’ Landing Site holding Clues to Ancient Water Flow on Mars
[/caption] Opportunity has begun a whole new mission at the vast expanse of Endeavour Crater promising a boatload of new…