NASA rover reaches first stop in crater
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NASA's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments.
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PARIS, France -- Europe&#39;s first mission to the moon has successfully entered lunar orbit, a key milestone in its 13-month trip into space.
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Nearly three years after landing on Mars, the rover "Opportunity" has reached a region of the planet that may provide the the best clues yet about the history of the red planet.
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LOS ANGELES -- Two months after surviving a giant dust storm, one of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars began a risky drive Tuesday into a crater blasted open by a meteor eons ago.
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The unmanned satellite SMART-1, whose mission is to map the Moon&#39;s topography and mineralogical composition, reached its first lunar orbit after a thirteen month journey, China Radio International reported on Tuesday.
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The Google Lunar X Prize, a robotic race to the moon, has drawn its first contestant.
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While the exploration of the Moon and other planets in our solar system is&nbsp;exciting, the first task for astronauts and robots alike is to actually&nbsp;get to those destinations.
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JPL - NASA's newest spacecraft at Mars has completed the challenging half-year task of shaping its orbit to the nearly circular, low-altitude pattern from which it will scrutinize the planet.
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US space agency Nasa celebrates the first year on Mars of its Spirit robot rover vehicle.
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NASA&#39;s Mars Odyssey orbiter begins working overtime today after completing a prime mission that discovered vast supplies of frozen water, ran a safety check for future astronauts, and mapped surface textures and minerals all over Mars, among other feats.
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The ExoMars project to land a European robot rover on the Red Planet moves forward with an enhanced design.
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A fuel-efficient, compact spacecraft has made it into lunar orbit, signaling Europe's first successful mission to the moon and putting the inexpensive probe on course to study the lunar surface, officials said Tuesday.
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Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity runs its wheels over the edge of Victoria Crater, its next big science target.
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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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Nasa's Opportunity Mars rover is pictured from space by the recently arrived Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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A probable active glacier is identified on the surface of Mars for the first time.
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NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is closing in on what may be the grandest overlook and richest science trove of its long mission. During the next two weeks, the robotic geologist is likely to reach the rim of a hole in the Martian surface wider and deeper than any it has visited.