An algorithm helps protect Mars Curiosity's wheels
There are no mechanics on Mars, so the next best thing for NASA's Curiosity rover is careful driving.
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Jun 29, 2017
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News tagged with mars rovers
A new test for life on other planets
A simple chemistry method could vastly enhance how scientists search for signs of life on other planets.
Analytical Chemistry
Jan 27, 2017
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How to drive a robot on Mars
Some 78 million miles (126 million kilometers) from Earth, alone on the immense and frigid Red Planet, a robot the size of a small 4x4 wakes up just after sunrise. And just as it has every day for the past six years, it awaits ...
Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2018
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Mars explorers will include women, experts say
Men walked on the Moon, but women will be among the pioneering explorers who someday step foot on Mars, said a gathering of top female space experts this week.
Space Exploration
Nov 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 (21-kilometer-diameter) ...
Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2011
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Mars panorama from Curiosity shows petrified sand dunes
Some of the dark sandstone in an area being explored by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows texture and inclined bedding structures characteristic of deposits that formed as sand dunes, then were cemented into rock.
Space Exploration
Sep 12, 2015
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Scars on Mars from 2012 rover landing fade—usually
A series of observations from Mars orbit show how dark blast zones that were created during the August 2012 landing of NASA's Curiosity rover have faded inconsistently.
Space Exploration
Mar 28, 2015
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Ingenuity Mars Helicopter spots Perseverance from above
Can you see NASA's newest rover in this picture from Jezero Crater?
Space Exploration
Aug 11, 2021
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NASA's Curiosity rover inspects unusual bedrock
Approaching the third anniversary of its landing on Mars, NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has found a target unlike anything it has studied before—bedrock with surprisingly high levels of silica. Silica is a rock-forming compound ...
Space Exploration
Jul 24, 2015
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Next Mars rover will have 23 'eyes'
When NASA's Mars Pathfinder touched down in 1997, it had five cameras: two on a mast that popped up from the lander, and three on NASA's first rover, Sojourner.
Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2017
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