(Phys.org) -- Earlier today, just hours after NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars, a select group of images taken by the onboard Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, were beamed back to Earth. The 297 color, low-resolution images, ...
Space Exploration
Aug 7, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spacecraft to a landing on Mars.
Space Exploration
Jul 20, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are running diverse trials with a test version of the radar system that will enable NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission to put the Curiosity ...
Space Exploration
Jun 14, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- This spring, engineers are testing a radar system that will serve during the next landing on Mars.
Space Exploration
Apr 13, 2010
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Airline passengers arriving in Atlanta on early morning “redeye” flights during the past few months may have noticed something different during their descent to the runway. Instead of the typical sound ...
Engineering
Jan 20, 2009
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