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The spectacular Valles Marineris canyon system on the Red Planet dwarfs in size the U.S. Grand Canyon.
The European Space Agency’s Mars Express spacecraft has been taking image strips of the valley system since 2004. A mosaic view of the geological wonder – using 20 separate images — has been released by the German Aerospace Center...
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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world, plus a roundup from the weekend. In Russia, a NASA astronaut and a pair of cosmonauts prepare to lift...
Opportunity rover is also busy surveying Mars - gathering new Red Planet data. Credit: NASA/JPLCornell Univ.
With all the deserved attention being paid to that new Mars arrival – the Curiosity rover – don’t forget the on-going travels of the Opportunity robot.
Opportunity landed on Meridiani Planum on January 25, 2004 and is still cranking out...
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Friday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space-related activities. On Mars, NASA’s Curiosity rover digests its first soil sample, following a delay to assess some bright objects in the...
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Thursday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities under way around the world. NOAA recovers GOES 13, a weather satellite that scans the Atlantic for hurricane activity. New...
The two faces of Uranus as seen through the adaptive optics on the near-infrared camera of the Keck II telescope in Hawaii. The white features are high altitude clouds like Earth’s cumulous clouds, while the bright blue-green features are thinner high-altitude clouds akin to cirrus clouds. Reddish tints indicate deeper cloud layers. In each image, the north pole is at the right and is highlighted by small...
R2 inspired X1 exoskeleton may help paraplegics with mobility as well as astronauts on deep space missions. Image Credit/NASA and IHMC
Space technology can be as much about improving life on Earth as exploring new worlds.
Robonaut 2, the first humanoid in space and a joint effort between NASA and automaker GM, has been...
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Wednesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world. NASA’s Kepler space telescope, filled with promise for finding Earth-like worlds around distant...
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Tuesday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related developments from around the world. The National Research Council selects a former U. S. Secretary of Defense and a prominent...
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Monday’s CSExtra offers the latest reporting and commentary on space related activities from around the world, including a look at weekend happenings. In New Mexico, Austrian Felix Baumgartner establishes a new...
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