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Spirit Rover Ready To Take…Those Sunken Wheels…
9:00AM Chris Jacob | …And learn to roll again, roll again so free. Sure, Spirit’s been better, but that doesn’t mean he’s down and out. No sir. NASA is ready to make the little guy mobile again and put him back to work. More »
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7:20AM Adam Frucci | Here are two galleries for you, both taken from space. One is of islands here on Earth, the other of landscapes on Mars. It’s amazing, the similarities between the two places when you look from a certain distance. More »
We’re Not So Different, Earth And Mars
7:20AM Adam Frucci | Here are two galleries for you, both taken from space. One is of islands here on Earth, the other of landscapes on Mars. It’s amazing, the similarities between the two places when you look from a certain distance. More »
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New HiRISE Images Show Chilly, Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander
2:40PM Rosa Golijan | Mars isn’t exactly the warmest place during the winter transition, but as the first few rays of sunshine lick at the planet’s surface we’re able to make out the Phoenix lander shivering under a cover of dry-ice frost. More »
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NASA Mars Spirit Rover Has Amnesia
6:00AM Jack Loftus | We hadn’t visited the NASA Mars rovers in a while here at Gizmodo, so I thought I’d take a look today and see what they’re up to. Unfortunately, things could be better. More »
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What Is This?
4:10PM Jesus Diaz | At first I thought this image was a tattoo under a powerful microscope. One near some feminine naughty bits. But no, there are no tattoos as weird and wonderful as what this image really is. Not on this planet, anyway. More »
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Panel To Obama: Tell NASA To Skip The Moon And Head To Mars
7:00AM Adam Frucci | An independent commission has advised the White House to have NASA ditch plans to go back to the moon, setting its sights on Mars and beyond instead. I can get behind these suggestions. More »
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Volunteers Wanted For 520-Day Pretend Trip To Mars
7:00PM Rosa Golijan | The European Space Agency is looking for volunteers to spend 520 days isolated in a Moscow facility where they’d simulate travelling to, living on and coming back from Mars. Not bad, except the pretend travel lasts 250 days each way. More »
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Missions To Mars Graphic Shows 52.4% Failure Rate
12:20PM Jesus Diaz | Mars. There has to be little green men with ACME weapons living there. Or we have some incredibly bad luck when it comes to sending spacecrafts to the Red Planet. Most of them fail, for one reason or the other. More »
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Earth And Jupiter Captured In The Same Photo Taken From Mars
12:20AM Adam Frucci | This is a photo of the Earth and its moon and Jupiter and its moons. In the same frame. It’s taken from Mars, and it’s humbling and incredible. Be sure to click the picture to see its full scope. [Reddit] More »
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