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India's Test Created 400 Pieces Of Debris, Risk To Space Station: NASA

India News | Agence France-Presse | Wednesday April 3, 2019

The head of National Aeronautics and Space Administration todaybranded India's destruction of one of its satellites a "terrible thing" that had created 400 pieces of orbital debris and led to new dangers for astronauts aboard International Space Station

NASA's Curiosity rover sends colour photo from Mars

World News | Associated Press | Tuesday August 7, 2012

NASA's Curiosity rover has beamed back its first colour photo from the ancient crater where it landed on Mars and a video showing the last two and a half minutes of its white-knuckle dive through the Martian atmosphere, a sneak peek of a spacecraft landing on another world.

10 facts about NASA's Mars rover Curiosity and how it survived '7 minutes of terror'

Cheat Sheet | Edited by Prasad Sanyal | Monday August 6, 2012

The Mars science rover Curiosity landed on the Martian surface shortly after 10:30 pm (11:00 IST) to begin a two-year mission seeking evidence the Red Planet once hosted ingredients for life. Despite Mars' reputation as a spacecraft graveyard, humans continue their love affair with the planet, lobbing spacecraft in search of clues about its early h...

Mars rover Curiosity nears make-or-break landing attempt

World News | Reuters | Sunday August 5, 2012

The Mars rover Curiosity, on a quest for signs the Red Planet once hosted the building blocks of life, streaked into the home stretch of its eight-month voyage on Sunday nearing a make-or-break landing attempt NASA calls its most challenging ever.

5 things you may not know about the planet Mars

Cheat Sheet | Associated Press | Saturday August 4, 2012

Mars is set to get its latest visitor Sunday night when NASA's new robotic rover, named Curiosity, attempts to land there. Mars has been a prime target for space exploration for decades, in part because its climate 3.5 billion years ago is believed to have been warm and wet, like early Earth.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory: 5 facts

Cheat Sheet | Agence France-Presse | Thursday August 2, 2012

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, the most sophisticated robotic vehicle ever built for planetary exploration, aims to land on the red planet on August 6. It will study the Gale crater near Mars's equator for signs that life may once have existed, and for clues about past and present habitable environments on the Red Planet.