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ReMY - The Remote Mars Yard by Kazimierz Błaszczak - Kickstarter - 0 views

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    "The Remote Mars Yard (ReMY) - space technology just one click away. ReMY is an education-scoped project originating from Polish student analog Mars rovers - the winners of Mars Society's University Rover Challenge in Utah (Magma rover - 3rd at URC 2010, Magma2 rover - 1st at URC 2011 and Copernicus rover - 6th at URC 2011). The URC Mars analog rovers are full hardware simulators of real Mars rovers, capable of performing various scientific, exploration and engineering tasks in desert environments, such as Utah desert or artificial Mars terrain."
valerie taylor

The Best Sites For Learning About The Mars Rover Curiosity | Larry Ferlazzo's... - 0 views

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    "The Best Sites For Learning About The Mars Rover Curiosity: Mars Science Laboratory - interactive is from The Guardian. Meet Curiosity, NASA's New $2.5 Billion Mars Rover is from The Atlantic." ..updated periodically
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Mars Rover Finds Transparent 'Flower' Embedded In Rock (PICTURES) - 0 views

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    "A mysterious photograph of a bright, crumpled object on Mars taken by the Curiosity rover has caused controversy, after some dubbed it a "Martian flower". The shiny, white object was pictured embedded in a rock, in an image taken by the Mars Hand Lens."
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Study of clays suggests watery Mars underground - 1 views

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    "Study of clays suggests watery Mars underground Impact cratering and erosion combine to reveal the composition of the Martian underground by exposing materials from the subsurface. Investigation of exposed clay minerals at thousands of Martian sites by the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests a long period of wet, warm conditions, mostly underground."
valerie taylor

Mars in a Minute: How Hard Is It to Land Curiosity on Mars? - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Landing the Curiosity rover on Mars is the most difficult and nail-biting part of the whole mission. See just how hard it is to land on Mars in this 60-second video."
valerie taylor

Mars Express radar gives strong evidence for former Mars ocean - 1 views

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    "New results from the MARSIS radar on Mars Express give strong evidence for a former ocean of Mars. The radar detected sediments reminiscent of an ocean floor inside previously identified, ancient shorelines on the red planet. The ocean would have covered the northern plains billions of years ago. "
valerie taylor

'Mount Sharp' on Mars links geology's past and future - 1 views

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    "One particular mountain on Mars, bigger than Colorado's grandest, has been beckoning would-be explorers since it was first sighted from orbit in the 1970s. Scientists have ideas about how it took shape in the middle of ancient Gale Crater and hopes for what evidence it could yield about whether conditions on Mars have favored life."
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Video: A Retro-Sci-Fi Tour of Mars Rover Curiosity's Awesome Chemistry Lab | Popular Sc... - 0 views

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    "As we approach the Mars rover Curiosity's landing Sunday night, we're having a lot of fun seeing all the promotions - there are all kinds of videos, museum exhibits and road shows to help explain what the newest interplanetary explorer will do. Below is a great new one from the American Chemical Society. Curiosity is a well-equipped geologist, traveling to Mars with a suite of tools to bake and pulverize rock, but it's also a trained chemist, capable of detecting the ingredients necessary for life as we know it. It's the first explorer to be able to do this. "
valerie taylor

Curiosity Mars Rover Spins Its Wheels [720p] - YouTube - 0 views

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    "Uploaded by djxatlanta on Jul 13, 2010 The wheels that will touch down on Mars in 2012 are several rotations closer to spinning on the rocky trails of Mars. This video clip shows engineers in the JPL clean room where the rover is being assembled as they put all six wheels into motion for the first time. Engineers raised the rover just as a car mechanic would hoist a car to check the wheels, and started the "engine" to get the wheels rotating. The wheel mobility system has 10 motors in all-four for steering the rover and six for driving. During this test, all 10 motors ran in every direction. Each wheel spun forward and backwards. "
valerie taylor

Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation - YouTube - 0 views

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    "This 11-minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012. A shorter 4-minute version of this animation, with narration"
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MARS Greeley Haven 360 Panorama - Round the world travel from panoramas.dk - 0 views

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    This is absolutely mind-boggling! Full 360 degree panoramic interactive moving view of Mars as you've never experienced before. Taken by Opportunity Rover and converted into an interactive panorama
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Mars Science Laboratory: Technology - 0 views

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    "Technology development makes missions possible. Each Mars mission is part of a continuing chain of innovation. Each relies on past missions for proven technologies and contributes its own innovations to future missions. This chain allows NASA to push the boundaries of what is currently possible, while still relying on proven technologies. Below are examples of the way in which the Mars Science Laboratory mission relies on past technologies and contributes new ones."
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Final Goodbye to a Mars Explorer - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    "After a final attempt last week, NASA has stopped trying to make contact with the Mars rover called Spirit, which was last heard from in March 2010 as the Martian winter was setting in. Hopes of hearing more from Spirit were slim even then, but there is a difference between not hearing and no longer listening. Related * Times Topic: Spam Spirit was a spectacular success. A three-month mission, beginning in 2004, turned into six years of exploration. Even the accidents were profitable. When Spirit bogged down, permanently, at a location called Troy, efforts to free it revealed unexpected subsurface sulfates, which scientists believe are part of the Mars water cycle. "
valerie taylor

New analysis of clay deposits in ancient Martian Lakes - 1 views

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    "Mars was once a much wetter world than it is now, with hot springs, rivers, lakes and perhaps even oceans. Just how wet exactly, and for how long, is still a subject of considerable debate. One vital clue comes from clay mineral deposits and sediments left over after the water disappeared, but still visible now. They provide a valuable insight into what Mars used to be like, and why it is the cold, dry place we see today."
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Browse: Keyword: Mars | OER Commons - 1 views

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    "OER Materials Browse: Keyword: Mars"
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NASA's Mars Curiosity Rover Made With Lego Mindstorms | GeekDad | Wired.com - 0 views

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    "LEGO MINDSTORMS model of the Mars Curiosity Rover for the Build the Future in Space event at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. The rover contains 1000′s of LEGO Technic and MINDSTORMS bricks, and is 100% pure LEGO with no glue."
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High-Res Curiosity Rover Self-Portrait - 0 views

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    "Check out every intimate detail of NASA's Curiosity rover sitting at its home in Gale crater on Mars in this amazing high-resolution self portrait"
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7 Minutes of Terror: Curiosity Rover's Risky Mars Landing | Video - YouTube - 0 views

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    "NASA's Curiosity rover is a 1-ton robot that will make an unprecedented Mars landing on Aug. 5, 2012. See how the risky maneuver will keep rover team members in suspense for 7 fateful minutes."
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Sept. 3, 1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars - 0 views

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    On Sept. 3, 1976, the unmanned U.S. spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars to take the first close-up, color photographs of the planet's surface.
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