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Take Me Out to the Ballpark – On Mars!
Students in fourth through seventh grade will work to create the ultimate baseball experience "on Mars," even designing the rules for how to play a game on the Red Planet.
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Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit
Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year. >>
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A Mars Rover Named "Curiosity"
NASA's next Mars rover, a super-capable robot named "Curiosity," will push Mars exploration to a new level.
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Channels from Hale Crater
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars.
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Team Runs Operational Test to Prepare for Extracting Spirit
Engineers using test rovers on Earth to prepare for extracting the sand-trapped Spirit rover on Mars have added a new challenge to their preparations. >>
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New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online
Thousands of image products from 233 recent telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a diversity of surface shapes and textures on Mars.
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Squyres Wins Carl Sagan Medal For Public Outreach
The principal investigator of the Mars Exploration Rovers is honored for excellence in communicating the mission to the public. >>
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Opportunity Finds Another Meteorite
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a rock that apparently is another meteorite, less than three weeks after driving away from a larger meteorite that the rover examined for six weeks. >>
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Radial Channels Carved by Dry Ice
Spider-shaped features in the south polar region of Mars are carved by vaporizing dry ice in a dynamic seasonal process.
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NASA Spacecraft Sees Ice on Mars Exposed by Meteor Impacts
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has revealed frozen water hiding just below the surface of mid-latitude Mars. The spacecraft's observations were obtained from orbit after meteorites excavated fresh craters on the Red Planet.
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Radar Map of Buried Mars Layers Matches Climate Cycles
New three-dimensional imaging of Mars' north-polar ice layers by a radar instrument on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is consistent with models of Martian climate swings.
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Preventive Care Continues; Science on Hold
During analysis of four safe-mode events this year, engineers for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project have identified a vulnerability to the effects of subsequent events.
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Thousands of New Images Show Mars in High Resolution
Thousands of newly released images from more than 1,500 telescopic observations by Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a wide range of gullies, dunes, craters, geological layering and other features.
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Orbiter in Safe Mode Increases Communication Rate
Engineers for NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter project have stepped up the communication rate being received from the orbiter as an early step in the process of determining why the spacecraft spontaneously rebooted its computer on Aug. 26.
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Dust Storm Passing Over Spirit
The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of the sunshine at Spirit's location. >>
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Mars Orbiter Puts Itself in Safe Mode Again
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a safe mode Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, for the fourth time this year, while maintaining spacecraft health and communications.
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Second Test Rover Added to Driving Experiments
A second, lighter-weight test rover has entered the testing setup at JPL where rover team members are assessing strategy for getting Spirit out of soft soil where it is embedded on Mars. >>
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