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NASA has a possible Ingenuity successor and her name is MAGGIE
13 Apr 2024 13:41 GMT
NASA's Ingenuity helicopter … grounded by a broken rotor. NASA's Innovative Advanced Concepts … Intelligent Explorer or MAGGIE.
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MAGGIE is a compact fixed … Tunable Laser Spectrometer on the Mars Science Laboratory in Gale crater, and mapping …
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50 Years Later, This Apollo-Era Antenna Still Talks to Voyager 2
18 Apr 2024 22:13 GMT
… with Voyager 2.”
Why NASA needed DSS-43
Maintaining … Earth as well, including NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission. When the space … safely and was operational.
“NASA plans to send future … critical communications and tracking in NASA’s Deep Space Network. …
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Water On Mars? NASA's Curiosity Rover Hunts For Clues To Earth-Like Past
30 Mar 2024 08:57 GMT
… and potentially habitable past. NASA has said in a blog … form as water evaporates, NASA suggested. This transition in … in the past.
NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission and its Curiosity … quot; To your surprise, NASA's Curiosity actually found …
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NASA’s search for life on Mars: a rocky road for its rovers, a long slog for scientists – and back on Earth,…
12 Mar 2024 12:47 GMT
… old question.
Perseverance
Enter Perseverance, NASA’s newest flagship mission to … J. Williams receives funding from NASA Participating Scientist grants associated with … 2020 Perseverance rover and the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover.
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Laser Precision Meets Lunar Exploration With NASA’s Navigation Doppler Lidar
13 Feb 2024 00:14 GMT
… lander will deliver several NASA science and technology payloads, … (CLPS) delivery, meaning NASA will demonstrate NDL’s capabilities … as a concept to the Mars Science Laboratory team. In 2005, he … through CLPS will help NASA advance capabilities for science, …
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Why doesn’t NASA build a mechanism to clean the solar panels on its Mars rovers?
12 Feb 2024 19:03 GMT
… weight meant for science.
NASA’s Mars InSight lander … sustain the craft. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Inevitably, … mission. Why doesn’t NASA build in a mechanism … Principal Investigator for Science for Mars Science Laboratory Mastcam, Arizona State University …
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NASA's laser navigation tech to enable commercial lunar exploration
06 Feb 2024 17:17 GMT
… C lunar lander carrying several NASA science and technology payloads, … guidance system, developed by NASA's Langley Research … as a concept to the Mars Science Laboratory team. In 2005, he … Amzajerdian and Hines.
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NASA's laser navigation tech …
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Mars terraforming hopes boosted as NASA announces pioneering solar plane mission
25 Jan 2024 15:12 GMT
… Tunable Laser Spectrometer on the Mars Science Laboratory in Gale crater, and mapping … Phase I."
NASA says their NIAC (NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts) … future consideration and potential commercialisation.
NASA Associate Administrator Jim Free says …
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NASA proposes new solar powered airplane concept to explore Mars
22 Jan 2024 14:21 GMT
… substantial leap in capability for NASA’s exploration of the … attached to the belly of NASA's Mars Perseverance … Earth and other planets," NASA said.
The aircraft will … Tunable Laser Spectrometer on the Mars Science Laboratory in Gale crater, and …
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NASA’s Curiosity Rover Captures 12-Hour ‘Martian Day’
02 Jan 2024 18:25 GMT
Cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover recorded … December. Writing on X, NASA said the day was filmed … Administration said. Part of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, Curiosity was launched in … sent to Mars,” according to NASA. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech via …