Launched November 26, 2011, NASA’s Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory landed successfully on Gale Crater at 05:31 UTC on August 6, 2012. The rover’s objectives include searching for evidence of conditions favorable to life, studying the Martian climate, studying Martian geology, and collecting data for a future manned mission to Mars. Her precision landing was also meant as demonstration of this capability, which is needed for future human missions to Mars.
Daily Briefing
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Chris Carberry: One Year of Curiosity - Are We Any Closer to Sending Humans to Mars?...
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Read the results of a national opinion poll about human and robotic exploration of Mars....
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Learn about the Humans to Mars Summit and watch the live webcast on May 6-8, 2013!...
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Has Curiosity found clues to life's building blocks on Mars?...
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As we all expected one of the Mars satellites imaged the area where Curiosity landed in greater detail...
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Bill Nye’s reaction to the Rover’s landing as he watches it from PlanetFest in California...
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Christopher Carberry, head of a Beverly-based nonprofit organization pushing for human exploration of Mars by 2030, was in Pasadena, CA...
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It's time for NASA to set its sight on sending a human to the red planet...
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Jeff Horwich interviewing Chris Carberry, Executive Director of Explore Mars, on his thoughts on the future of Mars expeditions...
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'Landing Parties “See we’re not all geeks” '...
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Image of descending Curiosity by HiRISE on MRO
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T-0 Days: Landing - Today is the day! Will the landing be successful? Go Curiosity!...
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Chris Carberry blog in Huffington Post: "Humans on Mars by 2030 can and should be our next goal."...
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T-1 Days: Entry, Descent and Landing ...
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T-2 Days: Navigation - Each rover we send to Mars is more autonomous in its navigation than the previous rovers...
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Explore Mars' Chris Carberry spoke on NPR's Morning Edition about excitement around Curiosity's landing...
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Forbes' Alex Knapp on the upcoming landing of the Mars Probe Curiosity...
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T-3 Days: Communications and its importance on the 23 month mission. Without communications no mission; it is a simple as that...
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T-4 Days: Analysis of the Curiosity rover wheels and the necessary power to allow the rover to travel across the rough Mars terrain...
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T-5 Days: New possibilities of a more hospitable Martian past have emerged...
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NPR's Diane Rehm: The U.S. Mission To Mars. Get Curious at 45:20!...
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"Mars Rock" lands at Houston City Hall...
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The Martian Invasion starts with "7 Minutes of Terror" Aug 5 2012 at Space Center Houston Landing Party...
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We could not drive large distances with the first mars rover; scientists named the first rock Sojourner visited “Yogi.”...
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Landing in 1997, a bouncing method of airbags was used to land Mars Pathfinder after having been slowed with a parachute. ...
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Humans on Mars by 2030! Join Explore Mars and the George Washington Univ. Space Policy Institute at the 2013 Humans to Mars Summit ...
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We are not living in ordinary times, and the stakes have never been higher for a Mars landing ......
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That’s a long tail! The giant dust-evil plume shown in this late-springtime photo of the Martian landscape of Amazonis Planitia is 1.5 mile high. ...
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National Geographic
In National Geographic’s e-short book ‘Mars Landing 2012,’ written by Washington Post science correspondent Marc Kaufman and published just as the suspense builds, with Curiosity hurtling toward Mars, space science readers
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