NASA to send little Mars rover into gaping crater
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NASA will send its Mars rover  Opportunity into a gaping Martian crater in July to seek clues  about the planet&#39;s bygone environment despite risks to the  plucky little vehicle, officials said on Thursday.
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NASA's aging but durable Mars rover Opportunity will make what could be a trip of no return into a deep impact crater in an attempt to peer further back than ever before into the geologic history of the Red Planet.
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When one of NASA's rovers drills a hole in a rock on Mars some 200 million miles away, the commands come from Lower Manhattan.
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A rock dubbed &quot;Uchben&quot; in the &quot;Columbia Hills&quot; inside Gusev Crater is seen in this photo released Thursday, Nov. 4, 2004 taken by the Mars Rover Spirit.
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A cracked rock called Escher is helping NASA scientists reconstruct the history of water on Mars. They say that the crater currently being explored by the Opportunity rover may have been shaped by a second
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The surface of Mars is now obscured by a globe-engulfing veil of dust, officials report, posing a potentially longer-lasting threat to the plucky NASA rovers on the planet&#39;s surface.
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The Mars Rover Opportunity has  arrived at the rim of a big crater that scientists never  thought it could reach, NASA said on Wednesday.
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Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity is closing in on what may be the richest scientific "treasure trove" of its mission.
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The Mars rover Opportunity reached the rim of a deep crater Wednesday after an arduous 21-month trek, marking a milestone in its exploration for clues about the Martian past.
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NASAâs Mars rover Opportunity will finally enter a half-mile-wide crater after two months besieged by a giant dust storm.
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Scientists said Friday they were plotting the next move for the Mars rover Opportunity, which reached the edge of a deep and geologically rich crater last week after a marathon trek.
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Next Fourth of July, NASA will slam a heavy probe the size of a garbage can    into a comet, purposely carving a football-field sized crater for inspection.    As for&nbsp;what exactly&nbsp;will happen,&nbsp;however, nobody really knows.
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MOFFETT FIELD, CALIF. - The Mars rover Opportunity is set to examine the heat shield that protected the robot as it plunged through the planet&#39;s atmosphere last January.
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Preparations are on track for the launch of a new NASA Mars  lander early next month to search for subsurface water and potential life in the red planet&#39;s arctic northern  region.
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Fancy a trip on the vomit comet? NASA is calling for US undergraduates to design and then take part in a series of lunar and zero gravity experiments. It wants submissions by 30 October.â¦
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NASA is set to launch a robotic  spacecraft next month that will dig into the soil near the  northern pole of Mars to check for conditions favorable to  microbial life now or in the planet&#39;s past.
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Two Indiana University scientists have been tapped to help build two miniaturized instruments for NASA's next Mars rover mission, a traveling laboratory that will search for signs of past or present life.