Do Noctilucent Clouds Owe Their Existence to Meteor Smoke?
Anyone who’s ever seen a noctilucent cloud or “NLC” would agree: They look alien. The electric-blue ripples and pale tendrils of NLCs reaching across the night…
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Curiosity and Its Components Images by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
Late Monday night, an image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover and the components…
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The Curiosity Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) captured the rover’s descent to the surface of the Red Planet. The instrument shot 4 fps video from heatshield separation…
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Relive the Nail-Biting Terror and Joy of Curiosity’s Landing on Mars
Relive the nail-biting terror and joy as NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT). See…
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Founder of Jodrell Bank Observatory, Sir Bernard Lovell, Dies
Pioneering astronomer and physicist Sir Bernard Lovell has died aged 98. Sir Bernard, who was born near Bristol and studied in the city, was the founder…
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Curiosity Rover and Parachute Caught in the Act of Landing by MRO
An image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera aboard NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured the Curiosity rover still connected to its 51-foot-wide (almost…
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Curiosity Mars Rover Sends Higher-Resolution Image
About two hours after landing on Mars and beaming back its first image, NASA’s Curiosity rover transmitted a higher-resolution image of its new Martian home, Gale…
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Mars Express Acquires Signals From NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory
This morning at 7:14 CEST (Central European Summer Time), ESA’s Mars Express acquired signals from NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory as it delivered the car-sized Curiosity rover…
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Curiosity Lands Successfully on Mars!
NASA’s most advanced Mars rover Curiosity has landed on the Red Planet. The one-ton rover, hanging by ropes from a rocket backpack, touched down onto Mars…
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ESA’s Mars Express Marks the Spot for Curiosity Rover Landing
Much like a treasure map branded with an ‘X’ to mark the site of buried bounty, NASA’s rover Curiosity will be targeting its very own ‘X’…
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