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NASAs Curiosity rover does an about-face to reexamine weird Martian rock
2015-07-28 19:16:25| Extremetech
You don't turn around on another planet unless it's important.
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Curiosity rover finds surprising evidence of ancient continental crust on Mars
2015-07-16 16:04:51| Extremetech
Mars may once have had a continental crust, according to new readings gathered by NASA's Curiosity rover.
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NASA engineers isolate Curiosity rovers short circuit
2015-03-10 13:42:21| Extremetech
After standing still for several weeks, Curiosity's exploration missions could resume by next week -- if NASA has successfully isolated a problem in the rover's robotic arm.
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Curiosity rover finds ancient Mars lakebed with strong potential for harboring ancient life
2014-12-09 14:47:55| Extremetech
NASA's Curiosity rover has found the strongest signs yet that the surface of Mars, roughly 4 billion years ago, had conditions that would've been almost ideal for the genesis of life. NASA says that Curiosity has found evidence to suggest that Gale Crater was once filled with lakes, rivers, and deltas that contained water for tens of millions of years -- long enough that some small organisms could have emerged.
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Mars rover Curiosity finally arrives at its primary science target: Mount Sharp
2014-09-12 16:16:03| Extremetech
After two years on the surface of Mars, Curiosity has finally reached its primary science destination: the foot of Mount Sharp, or to give its official name Aeolis Mons. It will now slowly climb Mount Sharp, drilling into rocks and analyzing a series of interesting boundaries between different strata -- layers of geologically interesting rock that have found their way to the surface and can tell us a lot about the history of the Red Planet.
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