Mars Rover
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NASA's Mars Rover stuck in 'Hidden Valley'
World | Aug 20, 2014, 05:42 PM ISTNew York: NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity may have to find a new route to its destination Mount Sharp after getting stuck in sand in the "Hidden Valley".The one-tonne Curiosity is on a mission to Mount
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NASA's Mars rover Opportunity breaks off-world driving record
World | Jul 30, 2014, 10:12 AM ISTNew Delhi: Opportunity, the little rover that could, has broken a 41-year-old driving distance record that's out of this world. The decade-old NASA Mars rover has crossed the 25-mile mark, surpassing the 24.2-mile record held
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NASA to send another rover to Mars in 2020: chief scientist
India | Jan 05, 2014, 09:40 PM ISTChennai: After the success of Mars orbiter rover 'Curiosity', NASA would send another rover to the red planet by 2020 to explore "biosignatures" on Mars, a top scientist of the American space agency said here
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NASA diagnosing problem on Mars rover Curiosity
World | Nov 21, 2013, 10:38 AM ISTPasadena, California : The Mars rover Curiosity has temporarily stopped science observations while NASA checks out an electrical problem.The space agency said Wednesday the voltage change was first discovered on Sunday and engineers think it
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Curiosity rover snaps billion-pixel photo of Mars
World | Jun 21, 2013, 05:51 PM ISTWashington, June 21: NASA's rover Curiosity has captured a stunning 1.3-billion-pixel image of Mars that would allow viewers to zoom in and investigate parts of the Red Planet in incredible detail.The first NASA-produced view from
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Mars rover back to work after break
World | May 05, 2013, 04:34 PM ISTWashington, May 5: NASA's Curiosity rover is back in business after a weeks-long communication gap caused by solar interference.The rover had been on its own since early April, when Mars slipped behind the sun from
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10 years of "Opportunity" on Mars
World | Jan 21, 2013, 04:58 PM ISTLos Angeles, Jan 21: Opportunity, NASA's other Mars rover, has tooled around the red planet for so long it's easy to forget it's still alive.Some 8,000 kilometers away from the limelight surrounding Curiosity's every move,
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Mars rover Curiosity begins exploration of red planet
World | Aug 23, 2012, 07:00 PM ISTPasadena, Calif, Aug 23: NASA's Curiosity rover took its first test drive around the gravel-strewn Martian terrain on Wednesday, in preparation for the ultimate road trip to find out if life could have existed on