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NASA And ESA's First Joint Mission To Mars Selects InstrumentsPasadena CA (SPX) Aug 03, 2010 NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) have embarked on a joint program to explore Mars in the coming decades and selected the five science instruments for the first mission. The principal investigator for one of the instruments, and the management for NASA's roles in the mission, are based at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, scheduled to launch in 2016, is the first of three joint robotic missions to the Red Planet. It will study the chemic ... read more |
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Moscow, Russia (RIA Novosti) Jul 20, 2010U.S. NASA does not have capacities to build an asteroid mission spacecraft by 2015, the head of Roscosmos' manned flights department, Alexei Krasnov, said in the wake of NASA's announcement to create the spacecraft for deep space missions. On July 15, NASA unveiled its plans to send astronauts to an asteroid and to Mars no later than 2015. Earlier in April, U.S. President Barack Obam ... more  
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 20, 2010A downward-pointing camera on the front-left side of NASA's Curiosity rover will give adventure fans worldwide an unprecedented sense of riding a spacecraft to a landing on Mars. The Mars Descent Imager, or MARDI, will start recording high-resolution video about two minutes before landing in August 2012. Initial frames will glimpse the heat shield falling away from beneath the rover, revea ... more 
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 19, 2010Opportunity's driving campaign toward Endeavour Crater has benefitted from a recent solar array dust-cleaning event. The rover began the past reporting week with a drive of just over 68 meters (223 feet) on Sol 2295 (July 8, 2010). The rover then spent the weekend conducting a robotic arm campaign on a surface target called "Juneau Road Cut," collecting both Microscopic Imager (MI) i ... more |
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Mars Rover Curiosity Spins Its WheelsPasadena CA (JPL) Jul 14, 2010 The wheels that will touch down on Mars in 2012 are several rotations closer to spinning on the rocky trails of Mars. This video clip shows engineers in the JPL clean room where the rover is being assembled as they put all six wheels into motion for the first time. Engineers raised the rover just as a car mechanic would hoist a car to check the wheels, and started the "engine" to get the wheels rotating. The wheel mobility system has 10 motors in all-four for steering the rover and six for d ... read more |
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