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Opportunity Breaks Backward Driving RecordPasadena CA (JPL) Jun 15, 2011 Opportunity completed a drive-by imaging campaign of another small, but young crater, named "Gemini 5." On Sol 2616 (June 3, 2011), Opportunity set a new one-sol backwards driving distance record with a drive exceeding 165 meters (541 feet). The forward driving record is still 220 meters (721 feet), set on Sol 410 (March 20, 2005). The drive took the rover toward the crater. The plan was to conduct the drive-by of the crater on Sol 2620 (June 7, 2011), but a Deep Space Network problem ... read more |
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  Dawn spacecraft approaches protoplanet Vesta NASA's Dawn mission to the doughnut-shaped asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, which launched in September 2007, is now approaching Vesta, a protoplanet that is currently some 143 million miles ... more | .. |
 Entry, descent and surface science for 2016 Mars mission ESA and NASA have announced the scientific investigations selected for their 2016 ExoMars lander demonstrator. They will probe the atmosphere during the descent, and return the first ever data on el ... more | .. |
 Up, Up and Away for Mars In April, NASA's Spaceward Bound project returned to Zzyzx, California, in the Mojave Desert. Spaceward Bound brings together primary-grade science teachers with scientists to conduct astrobiology r ... more | .. |
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 NC State Students Look To Support Manned Mission To Mars What would it take to make a manned mission to Mars a reality? A team of aerospace and textile engineering students from North Carolina State University believe part of the solution may lie in advan ... more | .. |
 Camera Duo on Mars Rover Mast Will Shoot Color Views Two digital color cameras riding high on the mast of NASA's next Mars rover will complement each other in showing the surface of Mars in exquisite detail. They are the left and right eyes of the Mas ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Heads Toward 'Spirit Point' When NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reaches the rim of a large crater it is approaching, its arrival will come with an inspiring reminder. This crater, Endeavour, became the rover's ... more | .. |
 NASA Inspector General Report into the Management of MSL Project The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), part of the Science Mission Directorate's Mars Exploration Program (Mars Program), is the most technologically challenging interplanetary rover ever designed. ... more |
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 New solar system formation models indicate that Jupiter's foray robbed Mars of mass Planetary scientists have long wondered why Mars is only about half the size and one-tenth the mass of Earth. As next-door neighbors in the inner solar system, probably formed about the same time, w ... more | .. |
 A Salute to the Spirit of Mars The Voyagers are, perhaps, the best known example. Launched in the 1970s to explore the outer planets, the iconic spacecraft have zoomed far beyond their original targets to the edge of interstellar ... more | .. |
  Jupiter's Youthful Travels Redefined Solar System Jupiter, long settled in its position as the fifth planet from our sun, was a rolling stone in its youth. Over the eons, the giant planet roamed toward the center of the solar system and back out ag ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Studies Rock Outcrop Opportunity has exceeded 30 kilometers (nearly 19 miles) of odometry! The rover spent the last few sols investigating some exposed rock outcrop en route to Endeavour crater, now just a few kilometer ... more |
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 One year in isolation The six men in the Mars500 facility near Moscow have been in isolation now 365 days. The European crewmembers have been writing in their latest letters home about the highlights, monotonous life, te ... more | .. |
Opportunity Passes Small Crater and Big Milestone A drive of 482 feet (146.8 meters) on June 1, 2011, took NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity past 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) in total odometry during 88 months of driving on Mars. That's 50 t ... more | .. |
 Materials for Mars What would it take to make a manned mission to Mars a reality? A team of aerospace and textile engineering students from North Carolina State University believe part of the solution may lie in advan ... more | .. |
 A mole to explore the interior of Mars The final contenders in NASA's Discovery programme, which invites scientists to propose unmanned planetary missions, have been announced. The Geophysical Monitoring Station (GEMS) for Mars mission p ... more |
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Cyclone-battered region sees storm Dikeledi leave Mayotte for Mozambique
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 Opportunity Spies Outcrop Ahead Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater with less than 3.5 kilometers (2.17 miles) before the first landfall. The rover drove on three of the last seven sols. Opportunity start ... more | .. |
 NASA's Spirit Rover Completes Mission on Mars NASA has ended operational planning activities for the Mars rover Spirit and transitioned the Mars Exploration Rover Project to a single-rover operation focused on Spirit's still-active twin, Opport ... more | .. |
 Mars Formed Rapidly into Runt of Planetary Litter Mars developed in as little as two to four million years after the birth of the solar system, far more quickly than Earth, according to a new study published in the May 26 issue of the journal Natur ... more | .. |
Mars Science Laboratory Mission Status Report During processing of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., an incident occurred on Friday, May 20, involving the spacecraft's back shell. A crane lift of the har ... more |
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Mars Exploration Rover Spirit Laid To Rest NASA will cease any further attempts to make contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated with Earth on March 22, 2010. A transmission that will end on Wednesda ... more | .. |
 Sibling rivalry: Why Mars became a planetary runt Scientists on Wednesday said they believed they could explain why Mars is so much smaller than Earth, its companion in the Solar System's innermost "rocky" planets. ... more | .. |
 Endeavour Crater Just Three Miles Away For Opportunity Mars Rover Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater, now less than 4 kilometers (2.5 miles) away. The rover drove on four of the last six sols. On Sol 2595 (May 13, 2011), Opportunit ... more | .. |
  Antibody production gets confused during long-term spaceflight The trip to Mars just got a little more difficult now that French researchers have discovered that antibodies used to fight off disease might become seriously compromised during long-term space flig ... more |
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Mars Rover Driving Leaves Distinctive Tracks A dance-step pattern is visible in the wheel tracks near the left edge of this scene recorded by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity during the 2,554th Martian day, or ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Cracks The 18-Mile Mark Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater after a brief jog last week through a small field of young impact craters, named in honor after the spacecraft of the NASA Mercury Program. ... more | .. |
 Mars Science Laboratory Aeroshell Delivered To Launch Site NASA's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) aeroshell and cruise stage were delivered to Kennedy Space Center, Fla. yesterday. Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] built the aeroshell and NASA's Jet Propulsion Labo ... more | .. |
  Aquarius to Illuminate Links Between Salt and Climate When NASA's salt-seeking Aquarius instrument ascends to the heavens this June, the moon above its launch site at California's Vandenberg Air Force Base won't be in the seventh house, and Jupiter's l ... more |
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 Mars Express Sees Deep Fractures on Mars Newly released images from ESA's Mars Express show Nili Fossae, a system of deep fractures around the giant Isidis impact basin. Some of these incisions into the martian crust are up to 500 m deep a ... more | .. |
 Opportunity Images Small Craters Opportunity continues the trek towards Endeavour crater with a brief sojourn through a small field of young impact craters. In honor of the 50th anniversary of the first American into space, A ... more | .. |
 NASA Selects Investigations for Future Key Missions NASA has selected three science investigations from which it will pick one potential 2016 mission to look at Mars' interior for the first time; study an extraterrestrial sea on one of Saturn's moons ... more | .. |
 Exploring Rio Tinto Eurobotically No wonder it is called Red River: it looks like it could be on the red planet rather than in Spain. The landscape and terrain make it a perfect place for simulating a Mars sortie. An ESA rover ... more |
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