(NEWS) Curiosity To Foreign Planet Mars Day 3

b.a#17 Third Day on Mars In this image released by NASA on Wednesday, Aug. 8, 2012, a self portrait of NASA’s Curiosity rover was taken by its Navigation cameras, located on the now-upright mast. The camera snapped pictures 360-degrees around the rover. (AP Photo/NASA) NASA's Curiosity rover took this self-portrait using a camera on its newly deployed mast.  PASADENA, California—The science rover Curiosity took...

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(NEWS) Curiosity To Foreign Planet Mars Day 2

b.a#16 Second Day On Mars NASA rover Curiosity's second day on Mars went "flawlessly," NASA said Wednesday, confirming the antennas, communication links and generator on the $2.5 billion robot are all working well.  "We feel very confident we have a lot of data capacity now, that we have all these links, and that was one of the major objectives of that first part of the mission," mission manager Jennifer Trosper told reporters...

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(NEWS) Curiosity To Foreign Planet Mars Day 1

b.a#15 First Day On Mars Curiosity has woken for its first day on a foreign planet. On the cool and crisp surface of Mars, the NASA rover began its first solar day, Sol 1, about 9.45am Mars time (10.45am AEST).   Another of the first images beamed back from NASA's Curiosity rover on August 6 is the shadow cast by the rover on the surface of Mars "What's really exciting is the rover is in this new place and is going...

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(NEWS) Hidden Egyptian Pyramids Found?

b.a#14 Pyramids Form Two possible pyramid complexes might have been found in Egypt, according to a Google Earth satellite imagery survey. Located about 90 miles apart, the sites contain unusual grouping of mounds with intriguing features and orientations, said satellite archaeology researcher Angela Micol of Maiden, N.C. One site in Upper Egypt, just 12 miles from the city of Abu Sidhum along the Nile, features four mounds...

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(FAST FACTS) Top 10 Discoveries Of The Decade

b.a#13  10. Pluto-Sized Eris Rocks Solar System In January 2005, Mike Brown and his team at Palomar Observatory, Calif. discovered 136199 Eris, a minor body that is 27 percent bigger than Pluto. Eris had trumped Pluto and become the 9th largest body known to orbit the sun. In 2006, the International Astronomical Union (IAU) decided that the likelihood of finding more small rocky bodies in the outer solar system was so...

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