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Latest from Mars
From: NASA First Hi-Res Color Mosaic of Curiosity’s Mastcam Images This image is the first high-resolution color mosaic from NASA’s Curiosity rover, showing the geological environment around the rover’s landing site in Gale Crater on Mars. The images show a … Continue reading
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First Panorama from Mars
From: http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16011 This is the first 360-degree panoramic view from NASA’s Curiosity rover, taken with the Navigation cameras. Most of the tiles are thumbnails, or small copies of the full-resolution images that have not been sent back to Earth yet. … Continue reading
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All the Pieces Found
NASA has now located all the various components discarded during the Curiosity landing. See picture below:
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My favorite Curiosity Image (So Far)
This image, taken from orbit by the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is of Curiosity parachuting down to the surface of mars. Here is a simulation of the various orbiters in relation to the landing Curiosity. As shown … Continue reading
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First Pictures from Mars
Last night Curiosity landed on mars. The landing went perfectly (even with parachutes, cranes and rockets). Within minutes it sent back two black and white images. The first picture to be received was one showing one of the wheels of … Continue reading
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Curiosity’s Grand Entrance
Actor William Shatner narrates this thrilling video about NASA’s Curiosity rover, from its entry and descent through the Martian atmosphere to its landing and exploration of the Red Planet in NASA’s hardest planetary science mission to date. If you are … Continue reading
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New Sample Return Robot Challenge Detailed
From The Space Review via ASEE First Bell (June 7, 2011) In an article for the Space Review (6/6), Ben Brockert of Armadillo Aerospace wrote about the new NASA-funded Centennial Challenge called the Sample Return Robot Challenge, asking participants to … Continue reading
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Very Large Telescope HD Timelapse Footage
From: PopSci [with thanks to SvperNova09 of MidsouthMakers for pointing it out on IRC] There’s very little we can write to preface the imagery below, so we’ll just set the scene and get out of the way. The video below … Continue reading
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Virgin’s SpaceShipTwo Makes Its First ‘Feathering’ Flight
From: PopSci May 5, 2011 Virgin Galactic just keeps on ticking off the milestones on its way to becoming the first commercial company to take tourists on high-altitude flights to suborbital space and return them safely through the atmosphere to … Continue reading
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