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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity is doing a bit of mechanical navel-gazing on the Red Planet, snapping ultra-clear pictures of itself while testing a powerful camera at the tip of its robotic arm. The ...

NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars snapped the first clear photo of rays of sunlight illuminating Martian clouds. The sun rays beamed through a bank of Mars clouds that NASA says could be made of dry ice.

WASHINGTON - On Mars, a partial eclipse of the sun isn't quite as rare as on Earth. So NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is snapping hundreds of pictures of the spectacle for the folks back home to ooh and ...

NASA has multiple rovers and spacecraft on and around Mars, searching for signs of past life, water, and performing various science experiments. One of the rovers is the NASA Curiosity Mars rover, and ...

Oh, OK - how about another fresh pic: Not only has Curiosity been busy shooting pictures but the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) took a spectacular scene of the rover delivery stages strewn about ...

The NASA Curiosity rover has captured some stunning pictures of ice-filled clouds on Mars. Although these shimmery formations are rare to spot in the very thin atmosphere of the Red Planet around this ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took its first halting steps on the Red Planet today (Aug. 22), snapping photos of its tracks to commemorate the test drive milestone. The 1-ton Curiosity rover was slated ...

A storm of tiny dust particles has engulfed much of Mars over the last two weeks and prompted NASA’s Opportunity rover to suspend science operations. But across the planet, NASA’s Curiosity rover, ...

Two days ago, Curiosity stopped to analyze a football-size piece of Martian basalt called Jake Matijevic. Not only did Curiosity analyze the rock's structure and chemical makeup using itsChemCam ...

This color-enhanced view of NASA's Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars was taken by the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as the satellite ...

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