Sex in space? Millionaire to send married couple to Mars (Photo: Inspiration Mars) Millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito’s plan to send two astronauts on a 501-day flight that zooms past Mars and swings back to Earth would set plenty of precedents on the final frontier — but the most intriguing precedent might have to do with the astronauts that are to be sent: one man and one woman, preferably a married couple beyond childbearing years. We’re talking about sex in space, folks. Read the complete story.
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Sex in space? Millionaire to send married couple to Mars

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Millionaire space tourist Dennis Tito’s plan to send two astronauts on a 501-day flight that zooms past Mars and swings back to Earth would set plenty of precedents on the final frontier — but the most intriguing precedent might have to do with the astronauts that are to be sent: one man and one woman, preferably a married couple beyond childbearing years. We’re talking about sex in space, folks.

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Mars Curiosity rover team looks back at ‘flower,’ looks ahead to drilling (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS) The scientists behind NASA’s $2.5 billion Curiosity rover mission on Mars on Tuesday explained the nature of a tiny, gleaming “flower” embedded in Red Planet rock, and revealed where they’ll be using the SUV-sized robot’s drill for the first time. Read the complete story.
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Mars Curiosity rover team looks back at ‘flower,’ looks ahead to drilling

(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS)

The scientists behind NASA’s $2.5 billion Curiosity rover mission on Mars on Tuesday explained the nature of a tiny, gleaming “flower” embedded in Red Planet rock, and revealed where they’ll be using the SUV-sized robot’s drill for the first time.

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Curiosity rover studies rocks and a ‘flower’ on Mars (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Ken Kremer / Marco Di Lorenzo) The cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover have been clicking away over the holidays — gathering enough pictures for a 360-degree panorama of its rocky surroundings at Yellowknife Bay, plus a close-up view showing a “Martian flower” seemingly sprouting from the surface. Read the complete story.
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Curiosity rover studies rocks and a ‘flower’ on Mars

(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Ken Kremer / Marco Di Lorenzo)

The cameras on NASA’s Curiosity rover have been clicking away over the holidays — gathering enough pictures for a 360-degree panorama of its rocky surroundings at Yellowknife Bay, plus a close-up view showing a “Martian flower” seemingly sprouting from the surface.

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NASA plans Mars rover remake for 2020 (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech file) NASA today announced a $1.5 billion plan to build another Mars rover based on the design of its current Curiosity rover, with the intention of sending it to the Red Planet in 2020 and perhaps storing up samples for later return to Earth. Read the complete story.
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NASA plans Mars rover remake for 2020

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NASA today announced a $1.5 billion plan to build another Mars rover based on the design of its current Curiosity rover, with the intention of sending it to the Red Planet in 2020 and perhaps storing up samples for later return to Earth.

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Mars rover finds complex chemicals but no organic compounds … yet (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech) Although NASA’s Curiosity rover hasn’t yet confirmed the detection of organic compounds on Mars, it’s already seeing that the Red Planet’s soil contains water and more complex chemicals — including signs of an intriguing compound called perchlorate. Read the complete story.
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Mars rover finds complex chemicals but no organic compounds … yet

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Although NASA’s Curiosity rover hasn’t yet confirmed the detection of organic compounds on Mars, it’s already seeing that the Red Planet’s soil contains water and more complex chemicals — including signs of an intriguing compound called perchlorate.

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No organic material discovered on Mars yet, NASA says (Photo: NASA) NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has completed its first soil analysis of the Red Planet with no sign of organic material, the U.S. space agency said on Thursday. “Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect,” NASA said in a statement. “At this point, the instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics.” Read the complete story.
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No organic material discovered on Mars yet, NASA says

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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has completed its first soil analysis of the Red Planet with no sign of organic material, the U.S. space agency said on Thursday.

“Rumors and speculation that there are major new findings from the mission at this early stage are incorrect,” NASA said in a statement. “At this point, the instruments on the rover have not detected any definitive evidence of Martian organics.”

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Thanksgiving on Mars: Working holiday for Curiosity rover (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech) NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has some plans this Thanksgiving, and they don’t involve watching football in a food-coma stupor. “Thanksgiving isn’t so different on Mars. I had a long drive & plan to take photos. No pie, though,” the Curiosity team said via the rover’s official Twitter feed, @MarsCuriosity. Read the complete story.
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Thanksgiving on Mars: Working holiday for Curiosity rover

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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has some plans this Thanksgiving, and they don’t involve watching football in a food-coma stupor.

“Thanksgiving isn’t so different on Mars. I had a long drive & plan to take photos. No pie, though,” the Curiosity team said via the rover’s official Twitter feed, @MarsCuriosity.

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Curiosity’s Mars discovery called ‘one for history books’ (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Malin Space Science Systems) NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has apparently made a discovery “for the history books,” but we’ll have to wait a few weeks to find out what the new Red Planet find may be, media reports suggest. Read the complete story.
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Curiosity’s Mars discovery called ‘one for history books’

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NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity has apparently made a discovery “for the history books,” but we’ll have to wait a few weeks to find out what the new Red Planet find may be, media reports suggest.

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Mars rover snaps spooky portraits (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / KrisK / JMKnapp) It looks as if someone is taking portraits of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars from a few feet away — but wait a minute: Who’s the photographer? The answer is that Curiosity itself is responsible for the pictures, with strong assists from image-processing gurus. These views show the six-wheeled, nuclear-powered mobile laboratory at a geological site of interest known as Glenelg, as of Sol 84 (Oct. 31). They were assembled from imagery captured by the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, looking backward from the end of the rover’s 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) robotic arm. Read the complete story.
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Mars rover snaps spooky portraits

(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS / KrisK / JMKnapp)

It looks as if someone is taking portraits of NASA’s Curiosity rover on Mars from a few feet away — but wait a minute: Who’s the photographer?

The answer is that Curiosity itself is responsible for the pictures, with strong assists from image-processing gurus. These views show the six-wheeled, nuclear-powered mobile laboratory at a geological site of interest known as Glenelg, as of Sol 84 (Oct. 31). They were assembled from imagery captured by the Mars Hand Lens Imager, or MAHLI, looking backward from the end of the rover’s 7-foot-long (2.1-meter-long) robotic arm.

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Curiosity rover gets set to scoop up first Martian sand (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech) NASA’s Curiosity rover will scoop up its first batch of Martian soil samples this weekend, scientists announced Thursday. The 1-ton Curiosity rover arrived at a sandy patch called “Rocknest” on Wednesday. Mission scientists have deemed it a good spot for the robot’s maiden scooping activities, which should begin Saturday, if all goes according to plan. Read the complete story.
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Curiosity rover gets set to scoop up first Martian sand

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NASA’s Curiosity rover will scoop up its first batch of Martian soil samples this weekend, scientists announced Thursday.

The 1-ton Curiosity rover arrived at a sandy patch called “Rocknest” on Wednesday. Mission scientists have deemed it a good spot for the robot’s maiden scooping activities, which should begin Saturday, if all goes according to plan.

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Mars rover ‘checks in’ to Foursquare (Photo: Foursquare) Mars rover Curiosity continues to court social media with a cheeky “check-in” on Mars using the popular location-based social network Foursquare. Curiosity checked in at Gale Crater midday Wednesday (that is, midday on Earth in North America), leaving a comment and a “tip” about the location. Read the complete story.
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Mars rover ‘checks in’ to Foursquare

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Mars rover Curiosity continues to court social media with a cheeky “check-in” on Mars using the popular location-based social network Foursquare.

Curiosity checked in at Gale Crater midday Wednesday (that is, midday on Earth in North America), leaving a comment and a “tip” about the location.

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Mooning over the night sky’s marvels (Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI) NASA’s Cassini sent back this big, beautiful, black-and-white picture of Saturn — but what’s that little white speck in the corner? The image, unveiled by Cassini’s imaging team on Monday, shows tiny Enceladus at lower left. It’s just 313 miles wide (504 kilometers wide), and yet it shines brightly from a distance of 2 million miles or so. Enceladus is arguably as intriguing as Saturn, and here’s why: The icy moon has geysers of water spouting up from cracks in its surface, suggesting that there’s a deep ocean and perhaps even some sort of life down below. Read the complete story.
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Mooning over the night sky’s marvels

(Photo: NASA / JPL-Caltech / SSI)

NASA’s Cassini sent back this big, beautiful, black-and-white picture of Saturn — but what’s that little white speck in the corner?

The image, unveiled by Cassini’s imaging team on Monday, shows tiny Enceladus at lower left. It’s just 313 miles wide (504 kilometers wide), and yet it shines brightly from a distance of 2 million miles or so. Enceladus is arguably as intriguing as Saturn, and here’s why: The icy moon has geysers of water spouting up from cracks in its surface, suggesting that there’s a deep ocean and perhaps even some sort of life down below.

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