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... a prime target. ''RELEASE: 12-330 NASA ADMINISTRATOR BOLDEN AND SBA ADMINISTRATOR MILLS "HANGOUT" WITH CURIOSITY SMALL BUSINESS ATA ENGINEERING'' WASHINGTON -- NASA Administrator Charlie Bolden and Small Business Administration Administrator Karen Mills highlighted the contributions of small businesses to the success of the Curiosity rover's landing on Mars during a Google+ Hangout Wednesday with ATA Engineering, headquartered in ...

... and the agency's website. President Obama's call comes a week after Curiosity landed on the Red Planet. Curiosity carries the most advanced science payload ever used on Mars' surface. During ... 's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., spent last week beginning initial checks of Curiosity's 10 instruments and updating software for its two-year mission to investigate whether conditions ...

... of Technology, Pasadena, Calif. Paul Mahaffy, principal investigator for Sample Analysis at Mars investigation on Curiosity NASA Goddard Space Flight Center , Greenbelt, Md. David Blake, principal investigator for Chemistry and Mineralogy investigation on Curiosity NASA Ames Research Center , Moffett Field, Calif. Michael Malin, principal investigator for the Mast Camera ...

... NASA ROVER RETURNS VOICE AND TELEPHOTO VIEWS FROM MARTIAN SURFACE'' PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Curiosity has debuted the first recorded human voice that traveled from Earth to another planet and ... and the agency's commercial and government partners on the successful landing of Curiosity earlier this month, and said curiosity is what drives humans to explore. "The knowledge we hope to gain ... worlds is brought a little closer to us all," said Dave Lavery, NASA Curiosity program executive. "As Curiosity continues its mission, we hope these words will be an inspiration to someone alive ...

... their accomplishments recognized by the aerospace community, NASA Administrator Charles Bolden said. "In particular, the Curiosity landing was the hardest NASA mission ever attempted in the history of robotic planetary exploration ... about nine feet (2.75 meters) west of the rock where Curiosity's drill first touched Martian stone in February. Curiosity took the first rock sample ever collected on Mars from that ...

... . "This first confirmation of organic carbon in a rock on Mars holds much promise," said Curiosity participating scientist Roger Summons of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge. "Organics are important ... about 3.9 billion to 4.6 billion years ago, according to Curiosity’s measurements. The ratio that Curiosity found in the Cumberland sample is about one-half the ratio in water ...

... Curious with the Mohawk Guy," will feature Ferdowsi discussing his experience with the landing of Curiosity, NASA's evolving image, and renewed interest in science and exploration. Ferdowsi works at NASA ... and analysis. "We are on our way, though Glenelg is still many weeks away," said Curiosity Project Scientist John Grotzinger of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) in Pasadena. "We plan ...

... Mars. The Mars Science Laboratory mission carrying the one-ton rover named Curiosity, touched down in August. Almost immediately, Curiosity sent back pictures of its landing site at Gale Crater with the ... updates of each event that reached millions, and in the case of Curiosity -- billions, of people. During the August Mars Curiosity rover landing, NASA's website received 15 million visits and sent ...

... examined hundreds of rocks. That information has provided scientists a library of comparisons for what Curiosity sees. "Jake is kind of an odd Martian rock," said APXS Principal Investigator Ralf Gellert ... from the two instruments checking chemical elements in the same rock is just a preview. Curiosity also carries analytical laboratories inside the rover to provide other composition information about powder samples ...

... for scooping several times. Diverse rocks nearby provide targets for investigation with the instruments on Curiosity's mast during the weeks the rover is stationed at Rocknest for this first scooping ... target for use of its drill. JPL manages the Mars Science Laboratory Project and built Curiosity. ''RELEASE: 12-351 NASA'S TECHEDSAT LAUNCHES FROM INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION'' WASHINGTON -- NASA engineers, student ...

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