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Curiosity Rover Sends Picture From Mars
Curiosity Rover Sends Picture From Mars Back in November 2011, the Curiosity Rover was launched with a mission to get to Mars and explore the surface. Having successfully made the trip, it’s fairly safe to say that so far things have been going really well. Since arriving it has sent…
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NASA Says Life On Mars Is Currently Impossible
NASA Says Life On Mars Is Currently Impossible Despite the fact that we haven’t been back to the moon in over 45 years some people already have their eyes set on something much bigger. Namely, Mars. Our neighbouring red planet is clearly an object of interest for many. Particularly since…
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Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight!
Blood Moon To Appear In The Skies Tonight! Tonight will mark one of the more spectacular occasions in terms of astronomy. In the night’s sky, we will be treated to the longest ‘blood moon‘ we have seen so far in the 21st century. That is, of course, assuming you have…
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Curiosity Rover Takes Selfie On The Surface Of Mars
Mars Curiosity Rover Takes Amazing Selfie In The Middle Of A Storm The exploration of the surface of Mars is a difficult process. Not only is there the terrain to work around, but there’s also the exceptionally harsh climate. That doesn’t, however, mean that our rovers on the surface can’t…
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NASA Find Mars Spacecraft Lost 10 Years Ago
NASA A little under a debate ago the Phoenix Probe landed on Mars and over the course of 3 months, pottered around gathering scientific data on the red planet. It sadly, however, experienced conditions that it wasn’t designed for and perished. Despite all this time passing, NASA has incredibly revealed…
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Chainmail Armor Inspires New NASA Rover Wheel Design
NASA is usually associated with forward thinking ideas. Sometimes however, the best ideas come from looking into the past. For example their latest idea for a rover tire design took inspiration from a medieval chainmail armor. Innovation in this front is essential for future rover missions. As we have witnessed,…
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NASA Can’t Afford its Planned Manned Mars Mission
Last year, US Congress issued a mandate for NASA to launch a manned Mars mission by 2039. Then, in March, that mandate became a bill which granted NASA $19.5 billion to fund humanity’s first voyage to the Red Planet. As much as $19.5 billion appears to be, though, it is…
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1,969 Piece Saturn 5 Lego Rocket to Go on Sale June 1st
The iconic rocket that went to the moon is set to make a return as a 1:110 scale Lego Rocket. Standing a circa 1 meter tall when assembled the rocket has been created to commemorate the “icon of space exploration”. With 1,969 pieces even this number is not incidental as 1969…
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MIT Develops Mobile Robot for 3D Printing Buildings
A group of engineers from MIT have been working on a project since 2011 that may soon find use in distant worlds such as Mars. It is a mobile robot, capable of 3D printing buildings and structures and it is able to do so within 14 hours. They call this…
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NASA to Build Gateway to Deep Space Travel
NASA, in preparation to send its first manned mission to Mars, has announced that it plans to build a manned spaceport in orbit of the Moon. The Deep Space Gateway will serve as a launching pad for its future deep space exploration missions, specifically its most powerful rocket yet, the…
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Filmmaker Creates Breathtaking Mars Fly-over Video from Satellite Photographs
Renewed interest toward Mars is at an all time high currently with Hollywood movies, television shows and even governments showing fascination for the red planet. After all , other than Venus, it is Earth’s closest planetary neighbour yet it is still quite distant being 54.6 million kilometers away. Yet still,…
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Curiosity Rover’s Wheels are Showing Further Damage
NASA’s Curiosity Rover landed on Mars in 2012 and has since trekked along the Martian surface exploring. Mars’ terrain can be unforgiving so a certain amount of wear and tear is expected, even if the Curiosity rover’s odometer only clocked a total of 16 kilometers total travel distance. Recent photos…
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Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos Pilots Giant Robot Suit at 2017 MARS Conference
Amazon head honcho Jeff Bezos made quite the entrance at the 2017 MARS conference when he took to the stage piloting a giant robot suit. The annual Machine-Learning Automation, Robotics & Space Exploration conference (or MARS for short) is a private technology conference hosted by Amazon and attended by various…
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President Donald Trump Sets NASA Goal of Landing Americans on Mars by 2033
As part of President Donald Trump’s continued “Make America Great Again” promise, he has now signed a the NASA Transition Authorization Act which grants NASA $19.5 billion in funding for fiscal year 2018. The US president has has also asked the space agency to create a plan to send a…
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NASA Launches Four New Teams to Explore Solar System
With recent discoveries like the seven Earth-like exoplanets found orbiting a distant star, it can be easy to forget that our own, humble Solar system is vast, exotic domain which remains mostly unexplored. Following a remit, compelled by Congress, to venture to Mars by 2033, NASA has announced that it…
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