Looking like a sportier version of NASA's Mars Rover, the first wireless, Web-connected robot sees, hears and speaks for you.
Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has used its brush tool for the first time to sweep dust off the surface of a rock.
Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover has been put into "safe mode" after a computer glitch caused by corrupted files.
But when NASA's newest Mars rover, Curiosity, lands on the Red Planet next week, scientists hope to unlock a few more.
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Added to that eye-widening pub fact is that the heat insulation applied liberally to the engine bay and underside is a substance called 'Aerogel' - a compound formulated by NASA to insulate the Mars Rover.
The rover is likely to be a copy - in terms of size - of Nasa's Curiosity-Mars Science Laboratory rover, which is due to launch in November.
You've explored your scientific curiosities just like NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.
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This is the fourth rover Nasa has put on Mars, but its scale and sophistication dwarf all previous projects.
Nasa will send a robotic rover, Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), to the planet in September 2009 to look for signs of past or present life.
Before Curiosity, NASA's big rover project was the Mars Exploration Rover Mission: two golf-cart-sized rovers called Spirit and Opportunity.
But the excitement spread far beyond NASA locations: Parties in honor of the Mars rover landing were scheduled around the world.
Indeed, there's geologic evidence from the rover and from NASA's Mars orbiters that there may once have been a large lake and streams within the basin that Curiosity is driving around in now.
The first wheeled vehicle to land on Mars was during NASA's 1997 Mars Pathfinder mission, which consisted of a stationary lander and a surface rover called Sojourner.
So, Scout got upgraded from an 8-bit processor to a 32-bit unit based on Micrium, the operation system being used by NASA's Curiosity Rover for sample analysis on Mars.
Since NASA's Curiosity rover made its way to Mars, it's been sending back a wealth of data from our rust-colored planetary neighbor: landscape photos, radiation readings and even evidence of liquid water.
The US space agency (Nasa) says it will launch a new rover to Mars in 2020.
When NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars earlier this week, we joined together to celebrate the six-wheeled science lab.
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According to Makerbot, the most well known in a crop of companies developing low cost 3D printers, the technology is being used by NASA engineers to develop parts for models, including for the Mars Rover, Curiosity.
Nasa's Curiosity rover has only been on the surface of Mars seven weeks but it has already turned up evidence of past flowing water on the planet.
Baty also points to the fact that Cal Tech manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the federally funded NASA research and development center that has been in the news for its Mars Rover robotic space mission.
Nasa's Curiosity rover has been getting a good feel for the weather on Mars.
This color image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows part of the wall of Gale Crater, the location on Mars where the rover landed on Aug. 5, 2012 PDT.
He had spent three years at NASA's Ames Research Center, where he did the early work on the artificial intelligence that steered the Mars Rover.
The rover is built to run for two years, but a previous rover, Opportunity, has been working on Mars since 2004, well beyond the three months NASA planned.
The rover is supposed to run for two years, but a previous rover, Opportunity, has been working on Mars since 2004 -- well beyond the three months NASA planned.
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