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Opportunity Investigates 'Marquette' And 'Islington Bay'Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 08, 2009 Opportunity Status for sol 2076-2079: Opportunity has been investigating the rock known as "Marquette Island." On Sol 2076 (Nov. 25, 2009), the robotic arm (IDD) placed the Moessbauer (MB) spectrometer on a rock target called "Islington Bay" for a long, multi-sol integration. With the temporary loss of relay operations for a few sols because of the Odyssey spacecraft safe-mode, Opportunity ... read more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 03, 2009NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's science and relay operations within about a week. Engineers have diagnosed the cause of the Nov. 28 event as the spacecraft's proper response to a memory error with a known source. The likely cause is a ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Dec 01, 2009Opportunity has been investigating the rock known as "Marquette Island" over the last couple of weeks. This target is proving to be something unique that Opportunity has not encountered in more than 2000 Sols of exploring Mars. The science team is theorizing this rock could be either be a type of meteorite that Opportunity has never seen before or it could be ejecta from deep within the ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 26, 2009This image from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows a sample of the variety and complexity of processes that may occur on the walls of Martian craters, well after the impact crater formed. At the very top of the image is the high crater rim. At the bottom of the image is the crater's central peak, a dome of material ... more |
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Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 24, 2009Spirit experienced a wheel stall with the right-rear wheel during the second step of a two-step drive on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21). This is not the same wheel that stalled on Sol 1899 (May 6), the left-middle wheel. On Sol 2092, the right-rear wheel did not experience a hard stall like what was seen on Sol 1899. Instead, it stalled because the wheel's progress fell behind the ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2009Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury. Fresh lunar and Mercurian craters have ejecta blankets that look a bit rough near the crater rims; around larger craters, long rays or chains of secondary craters radiate away from the crater rims. Some Martian craters are similar to these craters, but Mars also ha ... more 
Pasadena CA (SPX) Nov 18, 2009Spirit is preparing to attempt extrication from her embedded location at "Troy" on the west side of "Home Plate." The project was successful in reformatting Spirit's on-board flash memory file system on Sol 2083 (Nov. 11, 2009). The rover is now again using the non-volatile flash file system for telemetry storage. On Sol 2078 (Nov. 6, 2009), Spirit straightened her wheels in preparat ... more |
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 NASA And Microsoft Allow Earthlings To Become Martians  Team Prepares To Uplink Commands To Spirit  Opportunity Approaching "Marquette Island" |
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