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Curiosity, the rover currently exploring Mars, is carrying a 1909 "VDB" Lincoln Cent, according to Science.com.

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NASA says Curiosity needed to take a short drive in order to get within arm's reach of the football-size rock. The rover used its Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument to examine the rock during its 46th day on Mars.

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NASA says Curiosity needed to take a short drive in order to get within arm's reach of the football-size rock. The rover used its Alpha Particle X-Ray Spectrometer (APXS) instrument to examine the rock during its 46th day on Mars.

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NASA has released an interactive HD color panorama showing a 360-degree view of the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover.

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The rover Curiosity, equipped with the most sophisticated tools ever sent to the Red Planet, has returned the initial measurements of the composition of the Martian atmosphere. 

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This scene shows the surroundings of the location where NASA Mars rover Curiosity arrived on the 29th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars on September 4, 2012.

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NASA Mars rover Curiosity extended its arm and snapped off a self-portrait photo.

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The left eye of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity took this image of the camera on the rover's arm, the Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI), during the 30th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's mission on Mars on September 5, 2012.

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 This image taken by the Mast Camera (MastCam) on NASA's Curiosity rover highlights the interesting geology of Mount Sharp, a mountain inside Gale Crater, where the rover landed.

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NASA's Curiosity rover found evidence for an ancient, flowing stream on Mars at a few sites, including the rock outcrop pictured here, which the science team has named "Hottah" after Hottah Lake in Canada’s Northwest Territories.

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This image shows a close-up of track marks from the first test drive of NASA's Curiosity rover. The rover's arm is visible in the foreground.

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Close-up of track marks left by NASA's Curiosity rover. 
 

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Last week we learned that, yes, Mars could have hosted life, based on the analysis of powder procured by rover Curiosity drilling into the Red Planet.

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The straight lines in Curiosity's zigzag track marks are Morse code for JPL, which is short for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., where the rover was built and the mission is managed.

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A Dutch company is looking for volunteer astronauts to fly to Mars. The search began Monday. Departure for the red planet is scheduled for 2023.

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The Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity used its laser to examine side-by-side points in a target patch of soil, leaving the marks apparent in this before-and-after comparison.

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Words uttered by Charles Bolden, the administrator of NASA, were radioed to the Curiosity Rover on the surface of Mars, which in turn sent them back to NASA's Deep Space Network on Earth.

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The Mars rover Curiosity could go for its first, short test drive in about a week, once scientists finish checking out its instruments, controllers said Tuesday.

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The announcement by NASA of the voice transmission, the latest in a series of advances by Curiosity since it landed on Mars earlier this month, comes just days after the death of Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon.

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A Mars panorama shot by Curiosity on its second full day on the red planet (August 7) has been released, and it's stunning. The panorama was assembled as an interactive by Andrew Bodrov, a photographer from Estonia via 360cities.net.

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New, amazing high-definition video of Curiosity landing on Mars has been released to the public.

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The NASA Mars rover Curiosity could go for its first, short test drive in about a week, once scientists finish checking out its instruments, controllers said Tuesday.

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NASA scientists are basking in the success of Curiosity's stunning landing earlier this week, proving that a complicated system involving a parachute and a sky crane can safely deliver a 2,000-pound vehicle to Mars.

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Cameras mounted on Curiosity's remote sensing mast beamed back fresh images of the site once the column was raised into position, giving NASA a view of the roughly half-meter (19-inch) 'scour marks' from the rocket exhaust.

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New, amazing high-definition video of Curiosity landing on Mars has been released to the public.

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NASA is holding a video briefing live on new findings and information from the Mars rover, Curiosity.

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Images beamed to Earth show NASA's Mars rover Curiosity had an 'exciting ride' when it landed on the Red Planet, the space agency said Tuesday.

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Images beamed to Earth show NASA's rover Curiosity had an "exciting ride" when it landed on the Red Planet, the space agency said Tuesday.

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NASA's $2.6 billion rover, Curiosity, carried out a challenging landing on Mars early Monday after traveling hundreds of millions of miles through space in order to explore the Red Planet.

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NASA's $2.6 billion rover, Curiosity, carried out a challenging landing on Mars early Monday after traveling hundreds of millions of miles through space in order to explore the Red Planet.

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The SUV-sized Curiosity made its dramatic arrival on Martian terrain in a spectacle popularly known as the 'seven minutes of terror.'

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NASA, the agency that epitomized the "Right Stuff," seems lost in space and doesn't have a clear sense of where it is going, an independent panel of science and engineering experts say.

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