Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 06, 2010 - Spirit remains embedded at the location called Troy on the west side of Home Plate. Attempts to extricate Spirit have been complicated by the loss of functionality in the right-rear wheel and the lack of meaningful functionality with the right-front wheel.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jan 04, 2010 - NASA's Mars rover Spirit will mark six years of unprecedented science exploration and inspiration for the American public on Sunday. However, the upcoming Martian winter could end the roving career of the beloved, scrappy robot.
Washington (AFP) Jan 3, 2010 - NASA Sunday celebrated Mars rover Spirit's bountiful, six-year stint on the red planet, way longer than the three months it was forecast to last. But it all may soon come to an end, stuck as it is in Martian sand.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 25, 2009 - Spirit's drive on Sol 2120 (Dec. 19, 2009) included commands for using all six wheels. However, the right-front wheel rotated less than 2 degrees and the right-rear wheel did not rotate at all.
Paris, France (ESA) Dec 21, 2009 - ESA's Council yesterday gave the go-ahead to proceed with the implementation of the ExoMars Programme. This decision paves the way for two Mars exploration missions in cooperation with NASA in 2016 and 2018.
Sukhumi, Georgia (AFP) Dec 20, 2009 - The monkeys at this run-down research centre which was once the pride of Soviet science have seen it all -- a brutal civil war, freezing winters and starvation.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 18, 2009 - Certain environments on Earth that host life are very similar to places on Mars and other terrestrial planets, scientists have found. So if life can exist here, why not there?
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 18, 2009 - Spirit's right-front wheel, which had stopped operating in March 2006, revolved with apparently normal motion during the first three of four driving segments on Sol 2117 (Wednesday, Dec. 16) but stopped early in the fourth segment of the drive.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Dec 16, 2009 - Catherine Weitz, a senior scientist at the Tucson-based Planetary Science Institute, has reported new evidence for multiple, water-related geologic processes on Mars.
London (UPI) Dec 15, 2009 - Imperial College London scientists say they have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered by meteorites into Mars' atmosphere.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2009 - For the very first time, the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos have been caught on camera together. ESA's Mars Express orbiter took these pioneering images last month. Apart from their 'wow' factor, these unique images will help the HRSC team validate and refine existing orbit models of the two moons.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 14, 2009 - Opportunity Status for sol 2080-2090: On Sol 2086 (Dec. 6, 2009), the rover backed away and then drove about 5 meters (16 feet) around Marquette Island to image other parts of the rock.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Dec 11, 2009 - Results of diagnostic tests on Spirit's right-rear wheel on Sol 2109 (Dec. 8, 2009) continue to indicate a troubled wheel, which may leave the rover with only four operable wheels.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Dec 11, 2009 - The surface of Mars is littered with channels that appear to be the work of ancient water flows. Indeed, some of these channels meander back and forth like slow-moving streams on our planet. Channels can be carved by lava, wind and glaciers, but these processes can't explain all the features on Mars.
London, UK (SPX) Dec 09, 2009 - Scientists have ruled out the possibility that methane is delivered to Mars by meteorites, raising fresh hopes that the gas might be generated by life on the red planet, in research published in Earth and Planetary Science Letters.
Pasadena, Calif. (UPI) Dec 9, 2009 - NASA technicians say they have taken the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter out of the precautionary safe mode it has been in since August.
