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Search Results for: ""   News   42 Results   NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name PASADENA, Calif. - NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Element   MORE >>   NASA Releases Interactive 3-D Views of Space Station, New Mars Rover PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7.   MORE >>   Mars Parachute Testing in World's Largest Wind Tunnel The parachute for NASA's next mission to Mars passed flight-qualification testing in March and April 2009 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif.   MORE >>   High-Flying Test Rides When you have just one chance to land Mars' biggest rover, you have to practice - a lot. So, how do you copy a high-speed descent on Mars? Strap special sensors to an F/A-18 jet at NASA's Dryden Fligh   MORE >>   One Hot, Giant "Clamshell" Hot off a special delivery truck from Lockheed Martin in Denver comes the aeroshell for the Mars Science Laboratory rover. Like two pieces of a giant clam, the aeroshell's backshell and the heatshield   MORE >>   More Results From News   Other   116 Results   Participate As this mission develops, more unique ways to participate will be added, especially when the rover gets to Mars! While the Mars Science Laboratory rover is being built you can follow its progress   MORE >>   Overview Mars Science LaboratoryThe Mars Science Laboratory rover is larger and can travel farther than Spirit and Opportunity, NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers that began exploring the red planet in early 2   MORE >>   Multimedia Images View the Mars Science Laboratory images. This image gallery will expand as the mission progresses. See also Mars images by topical category (canyons, craters, etc.) in the main Mars   MORE >>   Interactives Get to know the Mars Science Laboratory rover by exploring this 3-D Photosynth of the rover in the JPL Mars Yard. This panorama shows the MSL rover in the JPL Mars Yard with oth   MORE >>   Photosynth var viewer = null; function loadPhotosynth() { //Get an instance of the viewer, associated with a div tag viewer = new Microsoft.Photosynth.Viewer("pslayer")   MORE >>   More Results From Other