The Mars Rovers Have Their Day in the Sun
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Since September 8th and 9th, the twin Mars rovers have been taking a well-deserved break, while the Sun-Earth line clears again for communication directly to Mars. While this conjunction may temporarily halt their wheels in the sand, other science tasks have kicked off under autonomous control.
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As NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s Mars rovers keep rolling past all expectations of their useful lives, scientists have a happy mystery: For some reason one
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After three years on Mars, NASA rovers built for a three-month mission face their toughest foe: Martian sandstorms blocking the sunlight that charges their batteries.
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LONDON - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne car wash has boosted the performance of one of the two US rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.
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Nasa's Opportunity Mars rover is pictured from space by the recently arrived Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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As Spirit and Opportunity continue their treks through the Martian winter -- still on duty nearly a year after their arrivals, back down on Earth, NASA is already planning the robot rover that will follow them.
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Findings in the Martian atmosphere by the European Mars Express spacecraft orbiting the red planet correspond to areas where the US Mars Odyssey spacecraft has detected possible water ice just beneath the surface.
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This week, scientists f urther confirmed the presence of water on Mars, almost a year after the Mars Exploration Rovers landed on the fourth rocky planet from the sun.
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LOS ANGELES Oct. 7, 2004 - NASA&#39;s Mars rovers don&#39;t seem to be wearing out, so mission planners have begun to think more boldly including a plan to let one climb up a steep slope from a crater it has been exploring to set out across a plain.
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SAN FRANCISCO: Pictures of Earth-like clouds were captured by Nasa&#39;s Mars rover on Wednesday. Reports also indicate that there&#39;s a rock that doesn&#39;t look like anything scientists have ever seen.
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ITHACA -- Getting to drive two rovers on Mars all the way from Ithaca is a dream come true for Cornell University&#39;s Steven Squyres.
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NASA's Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover.
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NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity gained this view of its own heat shield during the rover&#39;s 325th martian day (Dec. 22, 2004).
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NASA is paying for the Mars Rovers to keep working. The twin rovers &quot;Spirit&quot; and &quot;Opportunity&quot; landed on the surface of Mars last January.
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Aging but still on the go, climbing in and around craters, tapping into the mysteries of strangely cracked rocks, the two roving vehicles Spirit and Opportunity have explored Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled.
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During the last four weeks, the Mars Exploration Rovers have braved the Martian winter to continue their geologic field work, sending home more evidence of past liquid water on the Red Planet and images of bizarre geologic formations the likes ...
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PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- As NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity rovers resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the Sun, the space agency extended