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Actual Mars Rover Press Conference and Release
Posted by Greg Laden on December 3, 2012 
Despite rumors to the contrary, NASA actually does real, non-Parody science! And the famous press conference about Mars Rover happened today, and it was exactly as I predicted. Very, very interesting. PASADENA, Calif. – NASA’s Mars Curiosity rover has used its full array of instruments to analyze Martian soil for the first time, and found…
“They seem to be crunchy on the outside, and softer in the middle” (New Mars Find)
Posted by Greg Laden on September 14, 2012 Remember Rover? Rover is still finding stuff, and this latest find is strange, enigmatic, interesting, and worthy of further investigation. So far there is only a press release from NASA, here: NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery PASADENA, Calif. — NASA’s long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is…
OK, Now they’re just playing around with the hardware…
Posted by Greg Laden on August 27, 2012 Today, NASA did something never before done, and well, not all that impressive. Charles Bolden of NASA spoke some words into a microscope, and this voice stream was sent to the Curiosity Rover on Mars, which then sent it back. Hey, I just spent the last 15 minutes swapping monitors around on my computers, and…
Life on Mars?
Posted by Greg Laden on March 4, 2009 A computer model of the formation of Olympus Mons (a big giant mountain on Mars) indicates that this geological formation should contain pockets of water. The scientists explained that their finding is more implication than revelation. “What we were analyzing was the structure of Olympus Mons, why it’s shaped the way it is,” said McGovern,…
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