Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2005 - These four images were taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity on sols 632 and sol 633 (Nov. 3 and 4, 2005) before and after using the rock abrasion tool on sol 633 to grind into a rock target dubbed Kalavrita.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 16, 2005 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit continues to take advantage of favorable solar power conditions to conduct occasional nighttime astronomical observations from the summit region of Husband Hill.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 14, 2005 - Rabe Crater lies among hundreds of thousands of other impact craters in the rough-hewn southern highlands of Mars. Spanning 108 kilometers (67 miles), Rabe is halfway between the martian equator and the south pole, and west of the giant impact basin Hellas.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 14, 2005 - Opportunity is healthy and is observing outcrops of Erebus Crater. The rover used the tools on its robotic arm to examine an outcrop area named Olympia.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 14, 2005 - Spirit is healthy. The rover is out of restricted sols and has been making excellent progress. On sol 655, Spirit drove 94.5 meters (310 feet)! The total drive distance from sol 655 to sol 659 was 126 meters (413 feet).
Pittsburgh PA (SPX) Nov 11, 2005 - If it weren't for severe motion sickness, Dr. Ashley Stroupe might already have several space shuttle flights under her belt. The child of a NASA engineer, Stroupe devoured all things space-related during her childhood.
Fayetteville AK (SPX) Nov 10, 2005 - University of Arkansas researchers have become the first scientists to show that liquid water could exist for considerable times on the surface of Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 09, 2005 - If a human with perfect vision donned a spacesuit and stepped onto the martian surface, the view would be as clear as this sweeping panorama taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit. That's because the rover's panoramic camera has the equivalent of 20-20 vision.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 09, 2005 - Sprit is healthy. The team operated in restricted sols from sol 647 to 654. (Restricted sols occur when the timing of the communications pass from the Odyssey orbiter is too late in the day to gather vital location and health information about the rover after it executed recent commands.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 07, 2005 - Having weathered a recent dust storm, Opportunity is back to business. Energy levels are on the rise as the rover prepares for its next investigative campaign.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2005 - A Keck School scientist and his collaborators are the first to find methane-producing bacteria in arid desert soils, providing a springboard for future experiments on the distant planet.
Baltimore MD (SPX) Nov 04, 2005 - NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, within a day of its closest approach to Earth on the night of October 29. The large regional dust storm appears as the brighter, redder cloudy region in the middle of the planet's disk.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 03, 2005 - The three-sol plan for Opportunity's sols 627 to 629 (Oct. 29 to 31, 2005) began well, with a drive of 51 meters (164 feet) on the first sol. To allow as much time as possible for driving on that sol, the rover's usual post-drive imaging from its new location had been planned for the following sol.
Paris (ESA) Nov 03, 2005 - The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is now back in operation after a malfunction, reported a few months ago.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 02, 2005 - Opportunity is healthy and traversing around the northwest side of Erebus Crater. The rover has driven on every sol possible, acquiring during and after each drive, and surveying the sky and horizon in the mornings with the panoramic camera.
Los Angeles CA (SPX) Nov 01, 2005 - Evidence of methane-producing organisms can be found in inhospitable soil environments much like those found on the surface of Mars, according to experiments undertaken by scientists and students from the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California and the University of Arkansas and published online in the journal Icarus.
