Tagged: Curiosity

3:09pm

Tue March 12, 2013
Science

NASA: Ancient Mars could have supported life

Originally published on Tue March 12, 2013 3:50 pm

Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

The group of scientists working with NASA's Curiosity rover made a big announcement during a press conference today: "We have found a habitable environment that is so benign" if there was water there, "you be able to drink it," John P. Grotzinger, professor of geology at Caltech, said summing up the rover's latest findings.

That is, at one point Mars had the right conditions to support living microbes.

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5:00am

Tue August 28, 2012
The Digital Future

Mars and the value of science

Credit NASA/JPL-Caltech

The Mars rover Curiosity has been making its first tentative drives on the surface of the Red Planet. Soon, it will make a quarter-mile journey away from Bradbury Landing to explore a site called Glenelg, where it'll examine rock formations.

On this month's edition of The Digital Future, Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson tells KPLU's Dave Meyer that the August 5th Mars landing is more than just another triumph for NASA; it's a reminder that science is reality

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11:21am

Fri August 10, 2012
Mars landing

Solved: Mars rover snapped pic of rocket stage crash

PASADENA, Calif. — The mysterious Mars photo has been solved.

A NASA engineer said Friday he's pretty sure a Curiosity rover camera caught the rocket stage crashing in the distance after it landed in Gale Crater Sunday night.

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