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NASA planning Mars mission for 2016

NASA has selected a new mission, set to launch in 2016, that will take the first look into the deep interior of Mars to see why the Red Planet evolved so differently from Earth as one of our solar system’s … Continue reading

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Inspecting Curiosity’s Descent Stage Crash Site

This portion of an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been annotated to show the relative positions between NASA’s Curiosity rover (right) and the impact site of its sky crane, or … Continue reading

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Rover Final Approach Begins

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 Late Saturday night, NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft successfully fine-tuned its course to better zero in on its target entry point into the Martian atmosphere on landing day. Two brief thruster firings totaling about six seconds … Continue reading

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