News tagged with opportunity
To build a cooperative society, is it better to punish or reward?
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the basic components of a functional, cooperative society is a code of law, where the laws are usually enforced by some kind of incentive. Social incentives can either be positive (rewards) or negative ...
Apr 19, 2010 |
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Mars Rover Examines Odd Material at Small, Young Crater
(PhysOrg.com) -- Weird coatings on rocks beside a young Martian crater remain puzzling after a preliminary look at data from examination of the site by NASA's Opportunity rover.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Mar 24, 2010 |
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Young adults' sexual relationships increasingly favor men, research finds
(PhysOrg.com) -- While young women's educational and career opportunities have skyrocketed over the past two decades, their opportunities for stable, long-term relationships have declined, according to new research from sociologists ...
Other Sciences / Social Sciences
Jan 18, 2011 |
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Not space junk yet: Mars rovers carry on despite age, ailments
In one of the most remarkable engineering feats of our time, the aging Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are still taking orders and sending home pictures more than five years after they were supposed to ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 28, 2009 |
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Rover Gives NASA an 'Opportunity' to View Interior of Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 21, 2010 |
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Opportunity Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Victoria Crater
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2009 |
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Opportunity begins study of martian crater, new samples 'unlike any seen before'
(PhysOrg.com) -- The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Mars rover Opportunity studying new surroundings (Update)
The Mars rover Opportunity is snapping pictures like a tourist since arriving at its latest crater destination, much to the delight of scientists many millions of miles away.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 01, 2011 |
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Image: Mars Rover Sees Distant Crater Rims on Horizon
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured a new view of the rim of Endeavour crater, the rover's destination in a multi-year traverse along the sandy Martian landscape.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 03, 2010 |
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Dark shadows on Mars: Scene from durable NASA rover
(Phys.org) -- Like a tourist waiting for just the right lighting to snap a favorite shot during a stay at the Grand Canyon, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has used a low sun angle for a memorable ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 23, 2012 |
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Opportunity rover finds mineral vein deposited by water
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water. Analysis of the vein will help improve understanding of the history of ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 08, 2011 |
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Meteorite Found on Mars Yields Clues About Planet's Past
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2009 |
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Rover arrives at new site on martian surface
(PhysOrg.com) -- After a journey of almost three years, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has reached the Red Planet's Endeavour crater to study rocks never seen before.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 10, 2011 |
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Video documents three-year trek on Mars by NASA rover
(PhysOrg.com) -- While NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity was traveling from Victoria crater to Endeavour crater, between September 2008 and August 2011, the rover team took an end-of-drive image on ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 11, 2011 |
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New Mars rover snapshots capture Endeavour crater vistas
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured new images of intriguing Martian terrain from a small crater near the rim of the large Endeavour crater. The rover arrived at the 13-mile-diameter ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2011 |
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Opportunity
Opportunity may refer to:
In space exploration:
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