Monday, August 6, 2012

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NASA rover begins nail-biting Mars plunge NASA's most high-tech Mars rover plunged into the red planet's atmosphere Sunday night in an attempt to safely reach the surface with a complex new landing technique. NASA Showered with Praise After Amazing Mars Rover Landing NASA's Mars rover Curiosity successfully landed on the Red Planet late Sunday night (Aug. 5), marking a historic moment in the history of robotic Mars exploration. NASA rover Curiosity makes historic Mars landing, beams back photos PASADENA, California (Reuters) - NASA's Mars science rover Curiosity performed a daredevil descent through pink Martian skies late on Sunday to clinch an historic landing inside an ancient crater, ready to search for signs the Red Planet may once have harbored key ingredients for life. Mission controllers burst into applause and cheers as they received signals confirming that the car-sized rover ... NASA's rover Curiosity lands on Mars NASA's rover Curiosity successfully carried out a highly challenging landing on Mars early Monday, transmitting images back to Earth after traveling hundreds of millions of miles through space in order to explore the Red Planet. 'Enormous step forward' as NASA lands rover on Mars NASA has successfully landed its $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory and Curiosity rover on the surface of the Red Planet, breaking new ground in US-led exploration of an alien world. NASA: Mars Curiosity Beams First High-Res Pic In an almost giddy late-night press conference, the NASA Mars laboratory Science team celebrated the Curiosity Rover's successful landing on a "nice, flat spot -- beautiful, really beautiful" on Mars. It's a patch of dusty land that's since been immortalized in a couple of low-resolution thumbnails that arrived at mission control moments after Curiosity touched down. Now there's a new pic -- and ... NASA braces for "7 minutes of terror" Mars plunge NASA's most high-tech Mars rover on Sunday zeroed in on the red planet where it will attempt a tricky celestial gymnastics routine during a "seven minutes of terror" plummet through the atmosphere. NASA Rover's 1st Photos of Mars Reveal Unexplored Terrain After a spectacular landing on Mars, NASA's huge Curiosity rover is beaming back the first clear views of its new crater home and the photos already have scientists buzzing. Touchdown: NASA rover Curiosity lands on Mars The robotic explorer Curiosity's daring plunge through the pink skies of Mars was more than perfect. It landed with spectacular style, said a NASA scientist, describing the first images of its mechanical gymnastics. NASA counts down to dramatic Mars landing With a mixture of tense nerves and confidence, NASA counted down to the landing of its largest ever robotic rover on Mars, where it will search for signs that life may once have existed.
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