Six more months for Mars rovers
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Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity will spend another six months crawling over the surface of the red planet and sending data back to Earth.
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NASA will send its Mars rover  Opportunity into a gaping Martian crater in July to seek clues  about the planet&#39;s bygone environment despite risks to the  plucky little vehicle, officials said on Thursday.
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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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MOFFETT FIELD, CALIF. - The Mars rover Opportunity is set to examine the heat shield that protected the robot as it plunged through the planet&#39;s atmosphere last January.
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The Mars rovers fuel their instruments by following the sun and as their energy budget gets tighter during the winter, their terrestrial drivers get more skilled at driving towards the light.
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Nasa's robotic rover Opportunity sends back more images as it edges towards Victoria Crater.
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The Mars rover Opportunity reached the rim of a deep crater Wednesday after an arduous 21-month trek, marking a milestone in its exploration for clues about the Martian past.
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At times during the Mars rover mission, the tension was palpable even as far away as NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C. This was especially true about 18 months before launch, when the airbags and parachutes that cushioned the landers began tearing apart during testing. This is part 3 in our series.
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By Alicia Chang, The Pueblo Chieftain, Colo.  Feb. 2--LOS ANGELES -- Scientists are scrambling to find an alternative landing site for a long-armed robot set to launch this summer on a mission to dig into Mars' icy north pole to search for signs of primitive life.
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Designed to work for 90 days and to travel little more than half a mile (one kilometer), NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity have shattered those expectations, collecting a trove of data along the way.
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Ten months after NASA&#39;s twin rovers landed on Mars, scientists reported this week that both robotic vehicles are still navigating their rock-studded landscapes with all instruments operating
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As communications with Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity improves because the planet has emerged from behind the sun (from Earth&#39;s view), NASA has extended the robots&#39; mission.
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NASA thinks its Mars rovers just might keep going and going and going. The space agency has funded another extension of their mission, for an additional six months, if they last.
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LOS ANGELES NASA&#39;s Mars rovers continue to perform, working three times longer than their designed lives and prompting controllers to give them additional chores.
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Not only are NASA&#39;s seemingly unstoppable Mars rovers continuing their progress half a year beyond their design lifetimes, but Opportunity has recently shown an unexplained increase in its solar-cell power output, NASA has revealed.
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As humanity&#39;s continuous presence in space begins its fifth year aboard the International Space Station, the next inhabitants rocket into Earth orbit late Wednesday for a six-month expedition.
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Bored with your job? Fancy a challenge for the next 520 days? A new fixed-term position from the European Space Agency (ESA) may be just the ticket: the agency's scientists are looking for six people to go on a pretend trip to Mars.