Like Viking, Curiosity started off with some false positives.
You've explored your scientific curiosities just like NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.
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Obama may be busy with the upcoming election, but he said he'd still like to know immediately whether Curiosity finds life -- even microorganisms -- on Mars.
By the mid-1980s, the CB-trucker craze had faded like disco into an obscure cultural curiosity.
The suggestion is to use similar radioisotope thermoelectric generators like the one found in the Curiosity rover.
Now the tunnels have been discovered, and left to the curiosity of rats and mafia historians like me.
Raikes acknowledged that the culture of the foundation did not have as much curiosity and questioning as he would like and said that intellectual dialogue was one of four cultural priorities on his to-do list.
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Returning as a student, like Mr Owings, he was met with polite curiosity, not the hostility he had feared.
Vandi Tompkins, one of Curiosity's operators, said images like those beamed back so far will be used to program the rover's movements when it gets under way.
Curiosity mission planner Dawn Sumner said photographs like the ones beamed back by the rover, as well as others taken by probes in orbit, will be used to map a path to the mountain's base -- "doing the best science we can along the way, but also keeping our eyes on that beautiful layered rock, " she said.
An object like a torch could easily excite a child's curiosity.
Curiosity may be a robot, but it acts like a scientist: always skeptical, running experimental controls, double and triple checking every result.
I'm calling on all 200, 000 scientists who work for the federal government to do their part in their communities: to speak at schools, to create hands-on learning opportunities through efforts like National Lab Day, and to help stoke that same curiosity in students which perhaps led them to pursue a career in science in the first place.
The whole house felt like a series of monastic cells, their piety replaced by a worldly curiosity, an endless warren of blackened fireplaces, bookshelves and windows framing the sea.
It is a region that Curiosity project scientist John Grotzinger told the BBC's Horizon programme reads like a "book about the early environmental history of Mars".
No doubt, he had come along the first time out of curiosity, because bell ringing struck him as quaint and Olde Worlde, like warm beer or clootie dumpling, and thus one of the experiences it would be a shame to miss while he was over here.
The action starts with a kiss, like a love story in reverse, except that what impels the kissers is not passion but a sluggish technical curiosity.
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