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James Cameron convinces NASA to use 3D camera on next Mars mission

What do you do once you've broken your own record for the world's highest-grossing picture film? Well, you go offworld, of course. James Cameron, in his infinite benevolence and multidimensional...

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Watch the next Mars rover being built... via USTREAM! (video)

Does the idea of live video from JPL, where NASA's best and brightest are assembling the next Mars Rover, promise excitement and adventure? Perhaps not entirely. Are we holding out for a little more...

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NASA forced to abandon plans for 3D camera in next Mars rover, James Cameron...

Among the many great feats of his career, film director James Cameron counts the rather unorthodox achievement of being able to convince NASA to use a stereoscopic camera on its next Mars rover...

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NASA's Curiosity Mars Rover stars in its very own photoshoot

NASA's already given us a glimpse at its Mars rover, courtesy of a USTREAM broadcast a few months back, but the crew over at BoingBoing has taken one small step for mankind by going even further...

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NASA animation depicts Curiosity's soft landing on Mars, courtesy of a 'sky...

Sending a rover to a distant planet is no small feat, so we might as well make the landing even more spectacular, right? That's exactly what NASA has in mind for its Curiosity Mars rover, albeit for...

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NASA abandons Mars rover Spirit, chooses to remember the good times

More than a year after it first lost contact with its Mars rover Spirit, NASA has finally decided to throw in the towel. Yesterday, the agency confirmed that it will end all planned communications...

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Curiosity rover to land in Mars's Gale Crater to look for life, finally...

It's gotten its own photo shoot, some cool animation, and the interest of James Cameron -- and now Curiosity finally has a destination. NASA's pluckily-named Mars rover is set to land next to a...

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity gains DAN apparatus, new lust for water

"You can think of DAN as a reconnaissance instrument." That's a quote from Igor Mitrofanov of the Space Research Institute, Russia, who is being deemed the "principal investigator" of the Dynamic...

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NASA's Curiosity rover is on its way to Mars (video)

It's been described by the scientist in charge as "the most complex mission that has ever been undertaken to the surface of another planet," and NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft is now well...

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Peter Molyneux reveals first game from his new studio: Curiosity coming to...

Peter Molyneux has revealed what he's been up to since he left Lionhead. At E3, he paid a visit to Spike TV, bringing with him several screens from his upcoming title, Curiosity. He didn't give away...

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Peter Molyneux divulges DLC details for Curiosity, we apply for a loan

Peter Molyneux's first post-Lionhead game, Curiosity, holds a big mystery and now it promises DLC with a colossal price tag. The game -- the first of 22 experiments -- will reveal a secret to the...

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ESA team builds self-piloting rover in six months, tests it in Chilean desert

Chile's Atacama Desert might not be true Martian territory, but it's close enough for the European Space Agency's new rover. Built by a crack engineering team in just six months, the Seeker rover was...

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NASA's Seven Minutes of Terror: Curiosity's precarious Mars landing explained...

Edited and scored with the dramatic tension of a summer blockbuster trailer, NASA's put together a gripping short clip that dresses down Curiosity's mission to Mars for the layman. The "car-sized"...

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Watch NASA's Curiosity rover touch down on Mars, live at 1:30AM EDT

You watched the launch, bit your nails over computer simulations and even played the game, and it all comes down to today: NASA's Curiosity rover is about to land on Mars. The $2.5 billion vehicle has...

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NASA's Curiosity Mars landing successful, first pictures trickling in (video)

After "seven minutes of terror" involving guided entry, parachute and powered descent, and even a sky crane, NASA's Curiosity rover has successfully touched down on the surface of Mars. Better yet,...

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NASA's Curiosity captures awe-inspiring shot of Mount Sharp, uploads video of...

NASA's Curiosity rover hasn't even been on Mars a full 24 hours, and already the science world is reaping the benefits. Nerds, too, actually. The shot above is the first high(ish) resolution photo...

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NASA's Curiosity rover receives long-distance OTA update, 'brain transplant'...

Think it's nifty when your carrier deigns to provide your smartphone with that long awaited OTA update? That's nothing. Over the weekend, NASA's Curiosity rover will be receiving its first...

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Life on Mars: One week of Curiosity

Is there life on Mars? NASA's latest mission to the red planet might well answer that question, or perhaps the more pertinent question, was there life on Mars. At 10:02 AM EST on November 26th last...

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Visualized: Mars' Gale Crater in seamless 360 degrees

Have you been lapping up every pixel Curiosity sends back, but wishing you could somehow see those panoramas as nature intended? Well, thanks to kind 360 Cities user Andrew Bodrov, you can. The...

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Curiosity survives brain transplant, prepares for first drive

If you thought your OTA update took too long, how about four days? That's how long the Curiosity "brain transplant" took, and is now finally complete. This now means that the main computers have...

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