Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 28, 2005 - Spirit, the untiring robotic wonder child sent by NASA to explore the eerily earthlike fourth planet from the sun, has completed one martian year - that's almost two Earth years - on Mars.
Houston TX (SPX) Nov 24, 2005 - Hoping to heat up the competition, the University of Houston is giving Houston-area schools until Tuesday, Nov. 29 to enter the Fourth Annual Mars Rover Competition.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2005 - Spirit, the untiring robotic wonder child sent by NASA to explore the eerily earthlike fourth planet from the sun, has completed one martian year - that's almost two Earth years - on Mars.
Cambridge MA (SPX) Nov 22, 2005 - At 75 degrees north latitude, Devon Island lies high above the Arctic Circle, a few hundred miles from the magnetic North Pole. A true polar desert, it is also the largest uninhabited island on Earth. But the reach of MIT extends even here.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 22, 2005 - Opportunity is healthy. The solar array was apparently cleaned again on sol 638. Average solar array energy is around 720 watt-hours after the cleaning event!
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2005 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its panoramic camera to obtain this view of the impact feature called East Basin to the northeast of Husband Hill.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 21, 2005 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully fired six engines for about 20 seconds last Friday to adjust its flight path in advance of its March 10, 2006, arrival at the red planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Nov 21, 2005 - Spirit is healthy and making good progress downhill. The rover performed an extensive campaign with the tools on the robotic arm at an outcrop called Larry's Bench and made targeted observations with other instruments.
Paris (ESA) Nov 18, 2005 - For the four month operational period up to now, Mars Express has been making its closest approaches to Mars predominantly in the daytime portion of its orbit. The MARSIS radar's scientists are mainly collecting data about the upper layers of the Martian atmosphere, or 'ionosphere', which is the highly electrically conducting layer that is maintained by sunlight.
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 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 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).
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.
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.
