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By rss@youtube.com (marketingfinger) NASA is working on a 2009 Mars mission to set down a sophisticated, large, mobile laboratory using a precision landing that will make many of Mars' most intriguing regions viable destinations for the first time. Once on the ground, the Mars Science Laboratory would analyze dozens of samp...

 Canada The Mars Science Laboratory o Inspect this full-scale model of the next Mars Rover, named “Curiosity”, which replicates in every detail the SUV-sized Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) due to blast off in October 2011. - A Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Machine ...

 DC Clara Ma, 12, of Lenexa, Kans., submitted an essay that won a national contest for naming the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. The rover has been named Curiosity, as this sixth-grader from Sunflower Elementary School proposed in the ...

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It takes a lot of drilling to prepare to use a drill 100 million miles away, beyond the reach of humans. The Mars Science Laboratory rover is ... marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov

In an unassuming building at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory here, the struggle to free the Spirit rover from a patch of soft Martian sand has been brought to Earth. Spirit, one of the two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) currently on the surface of the ...

The Moscow Times  IL The pending retirement of the current space shuttle fleet is on the horizon, so each NASA mission to space remains extremely important. The US space agency finally named the Mars Science Laboratory, its next Mars rover, with help from sixth-grader ...

The Moscow Times The US space agency finally named the Mars Science Laboratory, its next Mars rover, with help from sixth-grader Clara Ma. The new rover -- scheduled to ... This Week In Space: The Late Great Planet EarthDaily Kos all 35 news articles »

 CA Julie Townsend, a member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team that's trying to get the rover Spirit moving again on Mars, where it's now struck in soft soil, will speak at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana at 11 am on Saturday, May 30. Map. ...

There are four possible landing sites for the next Mars rover. Scientists and engineers will evaluate all four sites for the future rover, which ... fr.truveo.com

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 NY NASA has selected a sixth-grade student's entry and named its new Mars Rover Curiosity. 12-year-old Clara Ma has won a trip to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., where she will be able to sign the rover as it is being built. ...

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Don't burn the locals A 12-year-old girl from Kansas has chosen the name of NASA's nuclear-powered Mars Science Laboratory rover.… Video - Business Intelligence for mid-sized businesses

 PA Ma's name suggestion was picked from 9000 submitted to NASA in a nationwide contest. Her prize is a trip to the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, where she will sign her name on the rover. The six-wheeled Curiosity, designated the Mars Science ...

 UK First there was Sojourner, then there were Spirit and Opportunity, and in a few years there will be . . . Curiosity. That's the official name given to NASA's next Mars rover, formerly called the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL. ...

 KS WASHINGTON (AP) -- A Kansas sixth-grade student has won a contest to name NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover. Clara Ma, a 12-year-old from the Sunflower Elementary school in Lenexa, submitted the winning name, "Curiosity. ...

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From space, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter takes a closer look at four possible landing sites for NASA's next Mars rover.

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory  NY by OfficialWire NewsDesk PASADENA, CA — (OfficialWire) — 05/19/09 — The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit that's become immobilized in soft martian soil. The National Aeronautics and Space ...

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory 18, 2004, three days after it successfully rolled off the lander. (UPI Photo/NASA/JPL) | Enlarge PASADENA, Calif., May 19 (UPI) -- The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit, which has become ...

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Spirit, one of the two Mars rovers, is stuck in loose dirt. A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working with a model of the rover here ... fhsukams.wordpress.com

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 CA By Alfred Lee, Staff Writer The five-year-old Mars Rover Spirit has been stuck in loose soil since May 1, Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials said Friday. Mission planners will simulate conditions in a JPL lab before attempting to move Spirit any ...

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 MN AP This artist's rendering released by NASA shows the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory on the surface of Mars. The rovers have performed admirably and made the investment in this exploration worth the cost. However, all such projects reach a point … read ...

He then moved to California to work at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Mars rover and sample return programs until late 1979. He also earned another master's degree, in electrical engineering, from the University of Southern California in 1979. ...

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By rektide My one concern was that it seemed like there was an awfully large amount of machinery that was simply thrown away to get a lander down. The mass fraction seemed rather low. Knowing this is a 1ton rover though it makes more sense; ...

By Jesus Diaz When I read that the UFO-looking Mars Science Laboratory's aeroshell would use a floating crane—called Sky Crane by NASA—to softly land the rover on Mars, I couldn't believe it. Now, watching this hyperrealistic NASA simulation showing ...

By Nancy Atkinson The Mars Science Laboratory, a souped-up Mars rover scheduled to launch next year might be delayed, scaled down or canceled due to technical problems and cost overruns. The nuclear powered rover designed to search for microbial life on the Red Planet, has already cost $1.5 billion and if i...

Visitors looking to take a trip out of this world, explore the stars and make a stop on Mars can do so this week at the 9th annual AstroFest. AstroFest begins tomorrow and lasts until Saturday in Davey Laboratory. Chris Palma, outreach fellow for the Eberly College of Science, said the event h...