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 - 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 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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
Tucson AZ (SPX) Apr 27, 2006 - The next spacecraft scheduled for a mission to the red planet, the Phoenix Mars Lander, is beginning a new phase of development in preparation for its launch in August 2007, project officials said Wednesday.
Paris, France (SPX) Apr 25, 2006 - ESA's Mars Express orbiter captured this image with its High Resolution Stereo Camera that shows the Nanedi Valles valley system, a steep-sided feature that may have been formed in part by free-flowing water.
A Dutch company said it plans to unveil a lab-on-a-chip system Monday intended to analyze rocky Martian soil for signs of life on a future ESA mission to the red planet.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Apr 23, 2006 - After some anxious days earlier this month, when mission controllers worried about Spirit's prospects for continued operations through the Martian winter, they have now pronounced the rover hobbled but healthy.
