Gerroa, Australia (SPX) Sep 07, 2005 - Six hundred sols later, Spirit is still alive, and three weeks behind it, so is Opportunity. At less than a million dollars a day, these two rovers are among NASA's most successful missions since Apollo.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Sep 02, 2005 - Working atop a range of Martian hills, NASA's Spirit rover is rewarding researchers with tempting scenes filled with evidence of past planet environments.
Boone NC (SPX) Sep 01, 2005 - If keeping dust under control at your house is a challenge, imagine keeping clear the solar panels that power unmanned exploration vehicles on Mars.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 31, 2005 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) successfully tested its main engines by making a successful trajectory adjustment for reaching the red planet on March 10, 2006.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 31, 2005 - On sol 560 (Aug. 21, 2005), Opportunity retracted the Moessbauer spectrometer from a rock target called Lemon Rind that had been brushed earlier with the rock abrasion tool.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 31, 2005 - After 581 sols and 4,810 meters (2.99 miles), Spirit reached the crest of Husband Hill. The top of the hill is moderately flat and fairly easy to navigate.
Washington (SPX) Aug 26, 2005 - After a dry, dusty day exploring Mars, it's easy to imagine how delicious a fresh baked potato or steamed carrots might taste to a hardworking astronaut.
Ithaca NY (SPX) Aug 26, 2005 - It has been an amazing mission from the beginning. Getting two tremendously intricate machines funded, designed, built, tested, approved, launched, landed safely on a planet millions of miles from Earth and functioning nearly continuously for more than a year and a half is an extraordinary feat.
Noordwijk, Netherlands (UPI) Aug 26, 2005 - The European Space Agency wants to send a single robot rover to Mars along with another fixed station.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 26, 2005 - A NASA-led team will present its Mars gully findings at the American Astronomical Society's Division for Planetary Sciences annual meeting in Cambridge, England, Sept. 5, 2005.
Cambridge MA (SPX) Aug 24, 2005 - If no one has asked you about it yet, they probably will. A bogus e-mail chain letter, sometimes titled Mars Spectacular, has been spreading across the Internet.
Leicester, UK (SPX) Aug 24, 2005 - 428 sols after reaching the foot of the Columbia Hills and 582 sols after landing, Mars Exploration Rover 'Spirit' has finally arrived atop Husband Hill - some 90 metres above the basaltic floor of Gusev Crater.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Aug 23, 2005 - With the August 12th launch of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla., the Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars, or CRISM, joins the set of high-tech detectives seeking traces of water on the red planet.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 22, 2005 - Spirit has made 54 meters (177 feet) of forward progress towards the summit of Husband Hill this past week. This is excellent progress considering Spirit is on restricted sols, so it can only drive every other sol.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 22, 2005 - Opportunity completed a study of the cobble area by taking a close look at the cobble Arkansas and a nearby soil target named Reiner Gamma with the instruments on the robotic arm.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Aug 19, 2005 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, launched on Aug. 12, has completed one of the first tasks of its seven-month cruise to Mars, a calibration activity for the spacecraft's Mars Color Imager instrument.
