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Curiosity Rover Stays Busy as Dust Storm Rages on Mars, Snaps Selfie

Posted on June 19, 2018
byAlex Chavers

A Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator means NASA’s Curiosity rover always stays busy, dust or shine. Not even an intense dust storm can keep the rover down. While the Opportunity rover had…

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A Spectacular Look at the Curiosity Rover From Space

Posted on June 21, 2017
byAlex Chavers

You see that tiny blue dot sticking out amidst sand and rock bathed in shades of red and brown? That’s NASA’s Curiosity rover trucking up the lower part of Mount…

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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Gets Curious

Posted on Last Updated on January 9, 2017
byAlex Chavers

Curiosity. An apt name for an explorer of the final frontier. Now, NASA’s rover can sate its own curiosity. Thanks to software (Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science, or AEGIS)…

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Mars’ Floating Spoon Shows How Desolate The Red Planet Truly Is

Posted on Last Updated on January 9, 2017
byAlex Chavers

The surface of Mars never ceases to amaze me. Orbiting spacecraft have caught landslides happening in real time and dust devils spinning up. Today, a small rock feature is generating…

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NASA’s NAPA Know How. Curiosity’s Rover Arm to Be Fixed in Days

Posted on Last Updated on January 9, 2017
byAlex Chavers

On February 27th, NASA’s Curiosity rover suffered a short circuit in its drill. The short circuit brought the mission to a standstill as engineers ran diagnostic tests. NASA has not…

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That Curiosity Picture Showing Possible Microbial Fossils? Probably Just Erosion Says Curiosity Scientist

Posted on Last Updated on January 9, 2017
byAlex Chavers

A member of the Curiosity rover team says interesting features snapped by the rover are probably not traces of microbial life. Last week, I wrote about Nora Noffke’s paper. She’s…

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A Look Back at NASA’s Busy 2014

Posted on Last Updated on January 9, 2017
byAlex Chavers

With 2014 almost in the books, let’s take a look back at NASA’s biggest moments. Mars The red planet remains one of NASA’s favorite current and future targets in our…

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Curiosity Rover Just Found One of Life’s Building Blocks on Mars

Posted on Last Updated on January 9, 2017
byAlex Chavers

The Gale Crater continues to be a gold mine for NASA’s Curiosity rover. The latest discovery? One of life’s building blocks – methane. Curiosity measured a sharp increase methane in…