Paris (ESA) Jul 28, 2004 - This perspective image of a fractured crater near Valles Marineris on Mars was obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the ESA Mars Express spacecraft.
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 28, 2004 - On sol 174, Opportunity completed close-up examination of a rock target called Arnold Ziffel using the rover's microscopic imager, Moessbauer spectrometer and alpha particle X-ray spectrometer. All observations were successful.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 27, 2004 - Opportunity continued its exploration of Endurance Crater the past five sols, and is now roughly 11 meters (about 36 feet) into the crater. The only drive during this period was on sol 171, when the rover turned around, backed down across the slope, then turned towards a feature called Razorback.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 27, 2004 - On sol 194, Spirit took a large microscopic imager mosaic, consisting of 34 images at multiple positions, of a target called Sabre on an outcrop rock called Wooly Patch. This was followed by a two-hour reading by the Moessbauer spectrometer and an overnight, seven-hour reading by the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2004 - This banner image shows Mars at Gusev Crater in approximately true color, as if one were standing beneath the hills called Columbia.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 26, 2004 - These images of 'yardangs', features sculpted by wind-blown sand seen here near Olympus Mons on Mars, were obtained by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board the ESA Mars Express spacecraft.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 22, 2004 - The Spirit rover will soon begin to climb up the Columbia Hills, backward.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 21, 2004 - While rovers and orbiting spacecraft scour Mars searching for clues to its past, researchers have uncovered another piece of the red planet in the most inhospitable place on Earth -Antarctica.
Antarctica (SPX) Jul 21, 2004 - While rovers and orbiting spacecraft scour Mars searching for clues to its past, researchers have uncovered another piece of the red planet in the most inhospitable place on Earth - Antarctica.
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 21, 2004 - Sol 166's tasks for Spirit included imaging of possible traverse paths inside Endurance Crater, then the start of a long period of data collection by the M¿ssbauer spectrometer on a target called Dahlia. All went as planned.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004 - While Opportunity descends the steep walls of Endurance Crater, it continues to add to its portfolio of evidence on martian water history. One current mystery entails pointed rocks lined up.
Moffett Field CA (SPX) Jul 20, 2004 - Researchers at NASA Ames Research Center in California's Silicon Valley are adapting the Earth observation instrument for potential use during future
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 19, 2004 - As winter approaches on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover continues to inch deeper into the stadium-sized crater dubbed Endurance. On the other side of the planet, the Spirit rover found an intriguing patch of rock outcrop while preparing to climb up the Columbia Hills backward. This unusual approach to driving is part of a creative plan to accommodate Spirit's aging front wheel.
Pasadena CA (SPX) Jul 19, 2004 - Since the beginning of January the Cornell University team running the panoramic cameras, or Pancams, on the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, has been largely functioning out of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena. That's where instructions are uplinked, or sent, to the two roving vehicles.
Pasadena (JPL) Jul 19, 2004 - On sol 181 the plan for Spirit was to deploy the instrument deployment device for microscopic imaging, then perform a two-hour M¿ssbauer integration. The rover was to conduct miniature thermal emission spectrometer and navigation camera observations of rover-disturbed soil.
Pasadena CA (JPL) Jul 16, 2004 - Opportunity has not moved (intentionally or otherwise) since its stabilizing maneuver on sol 158. The rover has been using the instruments on its arm and mast to study the rocks at its current location, which is in the sixth layer encountered on the way into Endurance Crater.
