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 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 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.
Huntsville AL (SPX) Oct 31, 2005 - This is it: the moment of truth. The spacecraft door has just clanged shut behind you, locking you and your fellow astronauts into the small cabin that will be your home for the next half-year's journey through interplanetary space - at the end of which you personally will be the first human to set foot on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Oct 31, 2005 - Spirit drove to an outcrop informally named Kansas to prepare for a series of robotic arm activities on a target called Kestrel.
Sydney, Australia (SPX) Oct 28, 2005 - The UK Space Tourism Company, Starchaser Industries through their Director, Paul Young has generously donated another UKP 20,000 (AU$ 46,723) for Stage 3 of the construction of the Starchaser Marsupial Rover project.
Toronto ON (SPX) Oct 28, 2005 - The Canadian Space Agency announced a final contribution of $6 million to Canadian firm MDA Space Missions to build a fully integrated weather station, known as MET, for the 2007 launch of NASA's Phoenix Lander Mission to Mars.
Greenville IN (SPX) Oct 28, 2005 - A little bit of mars has landed at SHOT, and it's open for business. Developed with support from the NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts (NIAC), the SHOT Martian Environment Simulator faithfully recreates the atmosphere, temperature and light spectrum found on the red planet.
Pasdena CA (JPL) Oct 26, 2005 - In August 2003, as the twin Mars Exploration Rovers were barreling toward Mars in their flying saucers, scientists and engineers sent a radio signal disguised as the rovers' voice to the Odyssey orbiter at Mars.
Pasadena (JPL) Oct 25, 2005 - Spirit is healthy and has begun driving downhill from the top of Husband Hill toward the south basin. Elevation maps produced from the panoramic camera imagery taken at and near the summit of Husband Hill showed a safe traverse (with vehicle tilts under about 20 degrees) across ridge lines east of the summit.
