Watch Live Mars Express Tracking NASA Mars Landing
Watch a live event from ESA’s European Space Operations Centre on 6 August when Mars Express tracks the arrival of NASA’s Curiosity rover at the Red…
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NASA Mars Mission Will Connect With Past and Future Missions
NASA’s newest Mars mission, landing in two days, will draw on support from missions sent to Mars years ago and will contribute to missions envisioned for…
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SLOOH Celebrates Mars and Curiosity With NASA JPL
Get the latest scoop on NASA’s new Mars rover, Curiosity, with this live show from the Slooh Space Camera collaboration. The first in a three-part series…
Read the articleCuriosity Will Soon Perform Its Second DareDevil Stunt
When Curiosity enters the Martian atmosphere on August 6th, setting in motion “the seven minutes of terror” that people around the world have anticipated since launch…
Read the articleZero Margin for Error for Curiosity’s Sky Crane
On August 5th at 10:31 p.m. Pacific Time (6:31 am August 6th, BST), NASA will gently deposit their new, 2000-pound Curiosity rover on the surface of…
Read the articleWilliam Shatner and Wil Wheaton Narrate New NASA Mars Curiosity Rover Video
As NASA prepares for next week’s Curiosity rover landing on Mars, William Shatner and Wil Wheaton share this thrilling story of NASA’s hardest planetary science mission…
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A Stellar Dance Lasting 10 Billion Years
The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope offers this delightful view of the crowded stellar encampment called Messier 68, a spherical, star-filled region of space known as a…
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Martian Triangle Heralds “Curiosity” Mars Rover Landing
Every time NASA lands a rover on Mars – or even makes the attempt – it is cause for celebration. On August 5th, the heavens themselves…
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Incoming CME, Weak Impact Expected
New sunspot AR1532 is crackling with M-class solar flares, including a brief but intense M6-flare on July 28th. A coronal mass ejection (CME) produced by Saturday’s…
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