Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 03, 2005 - Spirit has had an extremely successful week. On June 24, 2005 (sol 524), the rover drove 26 meters (85 feet). The following two sols, Spirit performed remote sensing. On June 27 (sol 527), Spirit completed another tricky drive and progressed 22.5 meters (74 feet).
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 01, 2005 - It's been an uncommonly good week so far for both rovers. It's funny with these vehicles... we have some stretches of time where it seems nothing much happens, or where various frustrating little glitches slow us down in some way or another.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Jun 29, 2005 - The dry, dusty, treeless expanse of Chile's Atacama Desert is the most lifeless spot on the face of the Earth, and that's why Alison Skelley and Richard Mathies joined a team of NASA scientists there earlier this month.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 28, 2005 - It's been slow going at Meridiani lately. We need to take a good hard look at Purgatory Dune with the instrument arm, but we've also got to show this dune a lot of respect... it got us once, and we don't want it to get us again. So as we're maneuvering into position on it, we're using a great deal of caution.
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 23, 2005 - MARSIS, the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding onboard ESA's Mars Express orbiter, is now fully deployed, has undergone its first checkout and is ready to start operations around the Red Planet.
Bristol, UK (SPX) Jun 21, 2005 - Recent research argues that an atmosphere rich in oxygen is the most likely source of energy for complex life to exist anywhere in the Universe, thereby limiting the number of places life may exist.
Moscow (UPI) Jun 20, 2005 - Russian space officials said Monday they are preparing two unmanned missions to Mars before 2015.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 20, 2005 - Last week Spirit finished examining an area on the rock Backstay that was brushed away with the rock abrasion tool. Using the microscopic imager and the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, the rover also looked closely at an undisturbed area on the rock.
Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jun 17, 2005 - Power-on testing continues. On June 6, the spacecraft's flight batteries were installed and activated. Autonomous self-testing was completed June 14. Installation of the thermal blankets is under way.
Paris, France (ESA) Jun 17, 2005 - The second 20-metre antenna boom of the MARSIS instrument on board Mars Express was successfully ¿ and smoothly ¿ deployed, confirmed today by the ground team at ESA's European Space Operations Centre.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 17, 2005 - Spirit's on the move. We've finished up our work in the whole Larry's Lookout, Jibsheet and Methuselah region and begun the long climb up and around to the south side of Husband Hill.
Ithaca NY (SPX) Jun 16, 2005 - Luck, it has been said, favors the well prepared. That explains, perhaps, the fortune of the plucky Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity - and their creators back on Earth, including Cornell Professor Steve Squyres, scientific leader of the NASA mission.
Paris (ESA) Jun 16, 2005 - Images taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft, have helped to reveal Coprates Chasma, a major trough in the Valles Marineris canyon system like never before. The HRSC obtained these images during orbit 449 with a ground resolution of approximately 48 metres per pixel.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jun 14, 2005 - After last week's robotic arm work at Larry's Outcrop, Spirit headed over to a rock called Backstay. The rover paused over the weekend to take a closer look at its solar panels and magnets.
Washington DC (SPX) Jun 14, 2005 - The Mars Human Precursor Science Steering Group was chartered by MEPAG in June 2004 to analyze the priorities for precursor investigations, measurements, and technology/infrastructure demonstrations that would have a significant effect on the cost and risk of the first human mission to Mars.
Mars (SPX) Jun 13, 2005 - On May 19th, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera (Pancam) mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th martian day, or sol. Spirit was commanded to stay awake briefly after sending that sol's data to the Mars Odyssey orbiter just before sunset.
