Tagged: Mars & News
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NASA engineer Nagin Cox in Belfast to talk about Mars Curiosity rover News
15.04.2013 NASA engineer Nagin Cox is in Belfast today to give a talk at Queen’s University about her work as part of the Mars Science Laboratory’s operations team behind the Curiosity... -
Close-up of Mars shows a dynamic landscape News
05.04.2013 New imaging and technologies mean we are getting an unprecedented view of the Martian landscape - and it’s throwing up some surprises. Claire O’Connell finds out from... -
Was there life on Mars? NASA rover discovers suitable conditions for ancient microbes News
13.03.2013 NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the Gale Crater on Mars since August last year, has discovered conditions once suited to supporting life on this neighbouring...Categories: Science -
NASA puts Curiosity rover in ‘safe mode’ on Mars after computer glitch News
04.03.2013 NASA’s Curiosity rover, which has been exploring Mars since last August, has halted its research following a malfunction last week when one of its two on-board computers... -
Elon Musk envisages creating colony of 80,000 humans on Mars News
26.11.2012 Could humans one day count Mars as a possible planetary abode? Elon Musk seems to think so. The PayPal co-founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX has detailed... -
NASA’s rover Curiosity reveals first Martian soil studies results News
31.10.2012 The mineralogy of Martian soil is similar to weathered basaltic soils of volcanic origin in Hawaii, initial experiments by US space agency NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity suggest. -
NASA’s Curiosity rover checks in on Mars using Foursquare News
04.10.2012 US space agency NASA’s Curiosity rover has checked into a first: Mars. The car-sized device that landed on the red planet last month to help conduct experiments ‘checked in’ to... -
Curiosity rover finds ancient streambed on Mars - NASA News
28.09.2012 US space agency NASA’s Curiosity rover mission on Mars has found evidence a stream once ran across the area on the planet where the rover is driving, NASA said. -
Viral videos of the week News
02.09.2012 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features Flight of the Conchords doing their bit for CureKids, trying to quench the Sun,... -
Human mission to Mars could happen in ‘not too distant' future, claims NASA (video) News
28.08.2012 This past weekend the world mourned the passing of the astronaut Neil Armstrong, the first human being to set foot on the moon during the eponymous Apollo 11 mission in July... -
Will.i.am song to blast out from Mars tomorrow via Curiosity rover News
27.08.2012 Hip-hop is about to make a foray into space as a new song from the US musician, rapper and songwriter Will.i.am will be broadcast for the first time tomorrow on Mars via NASA’s... -
Angry Birds hijack NASA’s Curiosity rover (video) News
24.08.2012 In Red Planet, the latest episode in Angry Birds Space, Rovio’s kamikaze birds shoot off to Mars for an adventure involving the Curiosity rover. Now we know curiosity killed the... -
Curiosity Rover starts driving about the newly named ‘Bradbury Landing’ on Mars News
23.08.2012 The Curiosity Mars Rover has begun experimenting with its wheels and has maneuvered forward, backwards and turned about within a 20 feet radius. The spot where it landed 16 days...Categories: Wireless Communications, Science, Multimedia, Mobility, Hardware, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Digital Media -
Mars Curiosity Rover unleashes the power of its laser gun – turns a rock into plasma News
20.08.2012 While hardly the Death Star, the Mars Curiosity Rover has achieved for itself the honour of blasting the first rock on any extraterrestrial planet by a laser, NASA has confirmed. -
US President Barack Obama praises NASA’s Curiosity rover team News
14.08.2012 US President Barack Obama has told the flight control team for US space agency NASA's Curiosity Mars rover that Curiosity's landing on Mars advances his goals of improving... -
Weekend news roundup: Curiosity’s software update, Netflix CEO buys Facebook shares, Google Doodle creators News
13.08.2012 In our trawl through some of the technology news from the weekend, NASA is updating software on its Mars Curiosity rover, Netflix’s CEO buys US$1m in Facebook shares, India’s...Categories: Web Design, Virtualisation, Software, Social Media, R&D, Internet, Government, Financial -
Viral videos of the week News
12.08.2012 We take a look at some of the most-viewed and most-shared videos on the web. This week features the science behind cats landing on their feet, a Batman short film made with... -
Curiosity rover snaps first colour image of the Martian landscape News
07.08.2012 So what has NASA’s rover Curiosity been doing on Mars since it touched down yesterday? Well, firstly, it has been taking a few snapshots of the landscape on the Red Planet,... -
NASA’s Curiosity rover lands on Mars: what’s next? News
06.08.2012 NASA’s US$2.5bn Mars Science Laboratory's (MSL) mission to Mars has been successful, as the Curiosity rover landed safely on the Red Planet this morning, on schedule. The probe...Categories: Science, Investments -
NASA to host social media events in lead-up to Curiosity rover landing on Mars News
02.08.2012 Want to learn more about the much-anticipated landing of the Mars Science Laboratory's (MSL) Curiosity rover, which is set to alight on Mars on 5/6 August? NASA has sent the...Categories: Social Media, Science, R&D, Life Sciences, Internet, Engineering, Engineer, Education, Consumer Tech