Mars in a Minute: Is Mars Really Red? - YouTube - 0 views
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60-second video answers one of the most frequently asked questions about our planetary neighbor.
Quick and Curious Facts About the Mars Science Laboratory Mission
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NASA's Mars Rover Set for Red Planet Landing Next Week | MSL & Curiosity | Space.com - 0 views
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Less Than a Week Remains Before NASA's Biggest Rover Yet Lands on Mars
Quick and Curious Facts About the Mars Science Laboratory Mission - 0 views
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Curiosity rover will land on Mars at 05:31 UTC on Aug. 6 (10:31 p.m. PDT on Aug. 5 and 1:31 a.m. EDT Aug. 6
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Earth-received time
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The Grand Entrance (William Shatner) - YouTube - 0 views
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William Shatner shares this thrilling story of NASA's hardest planetary science mission to date
Incredible View of Curiosity Rover's Landing Site - 0 views
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lower elevation, shown in purple is the target landing area
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scientists and engineers want to get the rover as close as they can to the big mountain, Mount Sharp
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5.5 km above the crater floor
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Curiosity's Descent - YouTube - 0 views
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Over 1500 hundred more low and high resolution MARDI images (1600 x 1200 pixels) will be sent back over the next few weeks to make a full frame animation and will provide the most complete and dramatic imagery of a planetary landing in the history of exploration
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team has been able to determine Curiosity's location to "within" about 1 meter says Malin, by matching the MARDI and MRO HiRISE images as well as the Hazcam images
"Nailed It!" HiRISE Captures Incredible Image of Curiosity's Descent to Mars - 0 views
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HiRISE Principal Investigator Alfred McEwen said before the landing that they expected only a 60% chance of success
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MRO was 340 km away from Curiosity when the image was taken, and that is line of sight distance, said Malkovich. “HiRISE has taken over 120 pictures of Gale Crater in preparation for MSL’s mission, but I think this is the coolest one,” she said.
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more details and image products will be available and we will post them as soon as they are available
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Mars Forecast: Dry Skies and Calm Winds for Mars Rover Curiosity's Landing | Popular Sc... - 0 views
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About 34 hours from the Mars rover Curiosity's landing
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NASA brought us the latest weather forecast from the surface -- dry and cold, with a slight chance of dust
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Earlier this week, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted a dust storm south of Gale Crater, the rover's targeted landing site
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