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NASA Abandons Hope for Mars Rover Opportunity
NASA Abandons Hope for Opportunity Rover Last year a pretty significant storm hit Mars and one of the casualties with the Opportunity Rover. While Curiousity managed to escape unscathed, contact was lost with Opportunity. The exact cause was unclear, it was, however, speculated that the storm may have caused the solar…
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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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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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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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Even NASA’s Curiosity Goes Into Safe Mode
When you have a software problem you have a few options to fix them. Typically software fixes software but there are sometimes when the software is a little too messed up and needs removing, this is even more common when the software has gone horribly wrong or is infected. The…
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures Fantastic Sand Dunes Of Mars
Space exploration is a fascinating subject which encompasses a wide selection of avenues which include the search for other life forms to new discoveries both concerning known and also unknown distant plants. NASA has recently released images from the Curiosity Mars rover which show a fantastic selection of images of…
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Drive Your Land Rover From Your Phone
Remote control cars are a thing of joy. Watching them speeding along your path only to struggle when it gets to the grass. We have started to relive that joy with self-driving cars, all the effort removed so you only have to focus on what you want to listen to…
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NASA’s Mars Rover to Be Reset and Wiped
NASA is preparing to reset and wipe the flash memory in their Mars rover Opportunity. Opportunity is the older of the two rovers cruising around on Mars’ surface and has done so since 2004. With it’s general age and the harsh environment it operates in, but also the older technology…
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Opportunity Sets New Record for Longest Distance Driven off-Earth
Opportunity first touched down on the red planet back in 2004, at which point its original mission plan only required it to drive for 1 kilometre (0.62 miles) within its first 90 days on Mars. Of course it’s not uncommon for many space missions to out last their original mission,…
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NASA Finds “Mysterious” Rock In Front Of Mars’ Opportunity Rover
NASA scientists from the Mars Exploration Rover project have discovered a strange discrepancy in two photos taken by the Opportunity rover. The first picture displays a photo taken 3528 SOL days (or Martian days) after the Opportunity arrived on Mars. The second photo shows the exact landscape, only with a…
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