Here's the Scoop!Curiosity shakes up a scoopful of dirt, dusts off the sampling system and investigates a shiny object on the surface of Mars. |
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What's up for October?Be on the lookout for two of the brightest objects in the asteroid belt, Ceres and Vesta near Jupiter plus two meteor showers! |
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Curiosity's First Scoopful of MarsThis video clip shows the first Martian material collected by the scoop on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Curiosity rover. |
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Rover Gets Set to ScoopNASA scientists and engineers prepare Mars Curiosity rover for its first scoop of soil for analysis. |
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Test Scooping for Mars Rover CuriosityThis video, presented at four times actual speed, shows a test using an engineering model of the soil scoop for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. |
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Mars StreambedCuriosity science team member Sanjeev Gupta explains how rounded pebbles spotted by the rover are convincing evidence of an ancient streambed on Mars. |
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River Fans on Earth and MarsCuriosity science team member William Dietrich explores the relationship between river fans found in California's Death Valley on Earth and similar fans in Gale Crater on Mars. |
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First Rock Contact by Curiosity's ArmThis engineering animation depicts the moves that NASA's rover Curiosity made on Sept. 22, 2012, when the rover touched a Martian rock with its robotic arm for the first time. |
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Tribute to JakeNASA's Curiosity heads to rock target 'Jake,' named in honor of Mars Science Laboratory engineer Jacob Matijevic. |
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Hydrogen Hot Spots on VestaThe animation from NASA's Dawn mission shows abundances of hydrogen in a wide swath around the equator of the giant asteroid Vesta. |
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