Laurel MD (SPX) May 30, 2006 - Space scientists from the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL), in Laurel, Md., got a first-hand look at what happens to Earth's atmosphere when the sun was abruptly turned off during the March 29, 2006, total solar eclipse.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 26, 2006 - Opportunity Status for sol 818-824 Opportunity is healthy and continuing to make its way toward Victoria Crater. Opportunity made 108 meters (354 feet) of progress in two sols of driving and was approximately 1,000 meters (just over half a mile) from Victoria Crater at the end of Sol 823.
Paris, France (SPX) May 23, 2006 - This image, taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera on board ESA's Mars Express, shows Pavonis Mons, the central volcano of the three shield volcanoes that comprise Tharsis Montes.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 21, 2006 - Spirit is healthy and making progress on a winter science campaign of experiments in Gusev Crater on Mars. Spirit has completed the first phase of a layer-by-layer soil study by collecting a mosaic of images with the microscopic imager and analyzing composition of undisturbed soil with the Moessbauer and alpha particle X-ray spectrometers.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 21, 2006 - As Opportunity continues to traverse from Erebus Crater toward Victoria Crater, NASA's rover is navigating along exposures of bedrock between large, wind-blown ripples.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 18, 2006 - The latest report on NASA's Spirit rover shows it continuing to make progress on collecting images as part of its McMurdo panorama, as well as conducting detailed studies of soil targets on its wintering slope using the Mössbauer spectrometer.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 18, 2006 - NASA's Opportunity rover has driven about 200 more meters (656 feet) to put itself within about 1,100 meters (two-thirds of a mile) of Victoria Crater, its next destination on the Meridiani Planum. As of Martian sol 822, or 732 sols past its expected operational lifetime, the rover still has shown no major mechanical or technical difficulties.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 08, 2006 - As Spirit began collecting images for its 360-degree McMurdo panorama last month, the rover captured this view of a dark boulder with an interesting surface texture.
Houston TX (SPX) May 08, 2006 - Geologists, biologists and archaeologists for years have used core samples to look back in time, tunneling through layers of soil and stone to study history. NASA engineers are taking this veteran technique into the future with a design that can bore into other planets using just a light bulb's worth of power.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 08, 2006 - NASA engineers have been unsure whether Opportunity would make it as far as Victoria Crater, but mission scientists nevertheless have been hoping for the chance to study such a large Martian feature.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 02, 2006 - This field of sand ripples now separates Spirit from the slopes of Husband Hill, where NASA's rover will spend the Martin winter. It has been 200 sols, or Martian days, since Spirit started its descent from the top of the peak to its current position on a formation that mission scientists have named Low Ridge.
Washington DC (SPX) May 02, 2006 - Mars is a dark and cold place named after a god of war. The red planet's hostile surface has yielded tantalizing clues suggesting the presence of life, either now or in some ancient time. As Earthmen plan a possible visit to Mars, they can be certain of one thing: there will not be any DSL or cable modem service.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 02, 2006 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity continues to cut southward across a plain marked by large sand ripples and a pavement of outcrop rock.
Pasadena CA (SPX) May 1, 2006 - Opportunity has passed 800 sols, or Martian days, of operations on the red planet, meaning the golf-cart-sized rover has functioned continuously nearly nine times longer than its initial mission design.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Apr 28, 2006 - Software that astronauts could use during spaceflight and in future moon habitats is being tested by NASA in a Utah desert April 23 to May 7, 2006. The research is taking place in Utah's southeast desert, at the Mars Society's Mars Desert Research Station near Hanksville, where scientists are field-testing a computer network to monitor space power systems.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 27, 2006 - Just in time to survive the Martian winter, NASA's once-again-lucky Spirit rover has driven to and parked on a north-facing slope in the Columbia Hills.
