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View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/how-curiosity-got-us-to-mars-bobak-ferdowsi In August 2012, the Curiosity rover landed on Mars. 
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Scientists are abuzz about a coal-colored rock from Mars that landed in the Sahara desert: A yearlong analysis revealed it's quite different from other Martian meteorites. Not only is it older than most, it also contains more water.
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Try to imagine the red planet filled with oceans, a thick atmosphere... and a biosphere.
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Chinese astronauts are preparing to grow fresh vegetables on Mars and the moon after researchers successfully completed a preliminary test in Beijing, state media reported.
Sakis Koukouvis's insight:
Vegetables on Mars!
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An expedition to the Moroccan desert has recovered fragments of a meteorite seen blazing across the sky on 18 July 2011. Analyses of those pieces, from a meteorite dubbed Tissint after a village in the region where the stones landed, reveal that the parent object had been blasted from Mars long ago.
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The rover team's assessment is that the bright object is something from the rover, not Martian material. It appears to be a shred of plastic material, likely benign, but it has not been definitively identified.
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The larger of the two moons of Mars, Phobos, transits (passes in front of) the sun in this approximately true-speed movie simulation using images from the panoramic camera.
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In preparation for its first drive on the Red Planet the Mars Science Laboratory moved its wheels around to check steering motions and tested its robotic arm that carries a "swiss army knife" set of tools to dig into Mars.
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Flight director David Oh, his wife, Bryn, and their three kids — 13-year-old Braden, 10-year-old Ashlyn and 8-year-old Devyn — are waking and sleeping in accordance with the Martian clock.
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The new robotic Mars rover landed at the foot of a fan-shaped sediment deposit reminiscent of formations in Death Valley.
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Here you have it. It's not the super-HD panoramic image that everyone is eagerly waiting for, but this is the first high(ish) resolution image of the 3-mile-high Aeolis Mons, commonly known as Mount Sharp.
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Rock is among the oldest known from the planet and matches findings from NASA rovers.
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NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to the surface on Aug. 5, 2012 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT).
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The first Martian rock NASA's Curiosity rover has reached out to touch presents a more varied composition than expected from previous missions. The rock also resembles some unusual rocks from Earth's interior.
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The simple tricks to fool Earth-evolved humans into living on Mars time. One Hour Short of Mars Time A new study says exposure to blue light at the right times, along with smarter caffeine use, can help humans adjust our biological clocks to the 24.6 hour Mars day rather than Earth's day.
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The Mars rover gets a Foursquare account and checks in from the Red Planet.
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“It’s part of the nature of man to start with romance and build to a reality.”
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Hot on the heels of Curiosity's flawless landing, NASA has just announced a brand new mission to Mars, one that will provide us with our best look yet into the Red Planet's mysterious interior.
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For years, many scientists had thought that plate tectonics existed nowhere in our solar system but on Earth.
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The photo-snapping rover Curiosity returned another postcard from Mars on Thursday — the first 360-degree color panorama of Gale Crater.
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