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Spirit Parks For The Winter
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 17, 2010 - Spirit is now parked for the winter in the embedded area called Troy on the west side of Home Plate.
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Opportunity Studies Chocolate Hills Rock
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2010 - Opportunity is exploring around the rim of the very young crater Concepcion. On Sol 2145 (Feb. 4, 2010), the rover made a 10-meter (33-foot) approach to a rock target called Chocolate Hills.
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Layers Piled In A Mars Crater Record A History Of Changes
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2010 - Near the center of a Martian crater about the size of Connecticut, hundreds of exposed rock layers form a mound as tall as the Rockies and reveal a record of major environmental changes on Mars billions of years ago.
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Spirit Ready For Another Cold Martian Winter
Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2010 - Spirit is now parked for the winter in the embedded area called Troy on the west side of Home Plate.
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Craters Young And Old In Sirenum Fossae
Bonn, Germany (SPX) Feb 04, 2010 - The High Resolution Stereo Camera, operated by the German Aerospace Center (Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt; DLR) on board the Mars Express orbiter has imaged craters, both young and old, in this view of the Southern Highlands of Mars.
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Spirit Prepares for Winter
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 04, 2010 - Sol 2151-2158 : Spirit is still embedded in the area called Troy on the west side of Home Plate. Energy levels for Spirit have been decreasing rapidly as winter approaches. To prepare for winter, the project is taking actions to improve northerly tilt of the rover to maximize solar illumination.
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Opportunity Approaching ‘Concepcion’ Crater Rim
Pasadena CA (SPX) Feb 03, 2010 - Sol 2131-2136: Opportunity has been driving towards Concepcion, a 10-meter (33-foot) diameter crater to the south of Marquette Island.
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A Stationary Spirit
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 28, 2010 - Spirit is staying put. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform after months of unsuccessful attempts to free it from a sand trap.
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Close Encounter With Mars
Huntsville AL (SPX) Jan 27, 2010 - It rises in the east at sunset, pumpkin-orange and brighter than a first magnitude star. You stare at it, unblinking. Unblinking, it stares right back. It is Mars.
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Spirit Struggles While Opportunity Rocks
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2010 - NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars. Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a basketball was the target of interest for Opportunity during the past two months. Dubbed Marquette Island, the rock is providing a better understanding of the mineral and chemical makeup of the Martian interior.
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Spirit Bogged In Sand: Now A Stationary Research Platform
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 26, 2010 - After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific explorer a stationary science platform after efforts during the past several months to free it from a sand trap have been unsuccessful.
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IceBite Blog: Living In A Freezer
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jan 26, 2010 - NASA's IceBite project will spend three austral summers in Antarctica testing ice-penetrating drills for a future mission to Mars. A team of seven scientists recently returned from the first field season, installing scientific probes in the ice and frozen ground, and scouting for sites where the drills will be tested the following year.
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Spirit rover to remain stuck in Martian sand
Washington (AFP) Jan 26, 2010 - NASA admitted defeat Tuesday saying efforts to free the Spirit rover bogged down by Martian sand were over and instead the plucky robot was hunkering down to brave the harsh Mars winter.
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Rover Gives NASA An ‘Opportunity’ To View Interior Of Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 25, 2010 - NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars.
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Public Invited To Pick Pixels On Mars
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 22, 2010 - The most powerful camera aboard a NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars will soon be taking photo suggestions from the public. Since arriving at Mars in 2006, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has recorded nearly 13,000 observations of the Red Planet's terrain. Each image covers dozens of square miles and reveal details as small as a desk. Now, anyone can nominate sites for pictures.
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Rover Gives Opportunity To View Interior Of Mars
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 22, 2010 - NASA's Mars exploration rover Opportunity is allowing scientists to get a glimpse deep inside Mars. Perched on a rippled Martian plain, a dark rock not much bigger than a basketball was the target of interest for Opportunity during the past two months. Dubbed Marquette Island, the rock is providing a better understanding of the mineral and chemical makeup of the Martian interior.