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Explore the Dark Side of Your Desk With This Wooden Curiosity Model

If you want a Curiosity rover of your own but don't quite have NASA's budget, you can save yourself £2,499,999,850 by going with designer Arnold Patrick Martin's beautiful wooden model. It doesn't move, the cameras don't work, and it probably won't survive a trip to Mars, but it's also only £100. Read More >>

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Street View Hits Mars With This 4-Gigapixel Panoramic

There's been no shortage of Mars pictures since Curiosity landed. We've got Martian mountains, rover selfies, the works. But thanks to a little image stitching by a clever dude back here on Earth, now we have Mars Street View, kind of. Read More >>

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What a Giant Martian Mountain Would Look Like on Earth

The red planet is an alien world, and though it may have once held life, it's certainly no Earth. But that's to a recent, mammoth panorama shot by Curiosity, we can get a glimpse of what it would be life if one of Mars' mountains was transplanted here to ol' Terra. Read More >>

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NASA: Ancient Life Could Have Survived on Mars

After analysing rock samples collected by the Curiosity Rover, NASA has made an exciting discovery: Conditions on a newly discovered grey (instead of red) part of Mars show it had conditions that were "once were favourable for life." It's an incredible breakthrough. Read More >>

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Mars Rover Curiosity Has Successfully Drilled for the First Ever Sample of Mars’ Virgin Bedrock

Since Curiosity has landed on Mars, it's been roving around finding all manner of...curiosities. Today, it's pulled off an intergalactic first and drilled 2.5 inches deep into the red planet's bedrock to obtain a sample. No one—no robot, as ever managed to pull that off before. Read More >>

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What the Hell Is This Weird Shiny Object on Mars?

The Mars Curiosity Rover has been busy snapping photos (selfies too) of Mars and found something... strange. A small, shiny, metal-looking "protuberance" sticking out from the red planet. Is it some secret lever to open up a world where Martians exist? Or some random space junk? We don't know. Read More >>

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Was This Photo of the Mars Curiosity Rover Taken By an Alien or What?

This is, without a doubt, the best photo of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity. Taken on a Martian flat spot called John Klein, the image was just published by scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It looks she asked someone passing by to take her camera and shoot the picture. Read More >>

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What the Hell Is This Shiny Metal Protrusion Sticking Out of a Martian Rock?

Curiosity has found something weird. It's shiny, probably made of metal, and is sticking straight out of a rock like a hand. Has NASA just found signs of intelligent life on Mars? Is it a tool of some kind? Or maybe the metallic foot of a long-dead robot Martian? Read More >>

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THERE ARE MOTHERF*CKING SNAKES ON MOTHERF*CKING MARS!

"Snakes on a Planet?" asks the Mars Curiosity Rover to herself, "no, but this sinuous rock formation I spotted on Mars looks like one." WHATEVER, Mars Curiosity Rover! I've had enough of your lies! Read More >>

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This Is the Mess Left by Curiosity’s Cruise Stage

During Curiosity's journey to Mars, it was carried by something called a cruise stage: a combination of propulsion systems, fuel tanks, and other equipment required to guide the rover to its destination. On the way down, though, all that stuff made a bit of mess. Read More >>

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Why NASA Finding Organics on Mars Is Nothing to Get Excited About

The internet is awash with news that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has detected carbon compounds on Mars. Some people may have you believe that the news suggests there's life on Mars — but don't get too excited just yet. Read More >>

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Elon Musk Wants to Build a Town on Mars the Size of Phuket

Elon Musk is brilliant but also a pretty nuts. He has his eye on a piece of real estate on Mars for a colony that would accomodate around 80,000 people. Considering NASA just landed the Curiosity Rover, we might be putting the cart before the horse here. Read More >>

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Curiosity’s First X-Ray Analysis Reveals the Origins of Martian Soil

The Curiosity rover has undertaken its first detailed X-ray analysis of Martian sand, in order to work out what kinds of minerals it contains and how its soils first came into being. Read More >>

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Curiosity Rover Makes the First Foursquare Check-in On Another Planet

Sure, while astronaut Doug Wheelock has the first-check in on foursquare from the International Space Station, can he boast the first check-in from another planet? 'Course not, Curiosity has got that one nailed to a tee already, by checking in on the big red planet known as Mars. Take that humans! Read More >>

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Curiosity Has Found a Riverbed on Mars

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of an ancient riverbed on Mars. While it's now dried up, it's the first ever evidence to prove that running water once poured over the surface of the red planet. This is huge. Read More >>