Mars rovers struggle with sandy slopes, solar winter
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Opportunity, one of NASA&#39;s two Mars rovers, struggled to get up the side of Endurance Crater. It spun its wheels, digging deep holes in the stadium-size crater&#39;s &quot;sand trap.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rovers have uncovered more tantalizing evidence of a watery past on the Red Planet, scientists said Wednesday. And the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are continuing to do their jobs months after they were expected to ...
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Something strange is happening on Mars. It seems something or someone is cleaning the windows on one of two rovers probing the surface of the red planet.
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After six weeks of waiting out globe-engulfing dust storms, NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Rovers have resumed driving across the planet&#39;s surface.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rovers have returned new evidence for past water, pictures of Earthlike clouds seen for the first time from the planet&#39;s surface, and a rock that doesn&#39;t look like anything scientists have ever seen.
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The Mars rover Opportunity will have to backtrack to leave the huge crater it has explored for six months because the terrain ahead is too dicey for the six-wheeled robot.
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Scientists said Friday they were plotting the next move for the Mars rover Opportunity, which reached the edge of a deep and geologically rich crater last week after a marathon trek.
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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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The Mars Rover mission continues for six more months as NASA is funding an extension. The project manager said the rovers are &quot;well past warranty&quot; but are showing few signs of wearing out.
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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 &quot;escape hatch&quot; from a crater it has been exploring and set out on a trek across a plain.
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Scientists are baffled by a mysterious power boost to one of its two robotic rovers on Mars.
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PASADENA, Calif.   The Mars rover Spirit has developed a problem with one of its six wheels, but NASA officials said Tuesday they believe the robot geologist can continue working.
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NASA's Mars  rover Opportunity&nbsp;will back its  way out of a&nbsp;crater it has spent four months exploring after reaching terrain&nbsp;that appears  too treacherous to tread.&nbsp;
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Updated photos from the Mars rovers allow us to look back at the three-year mission.
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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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Mission scientists worry that nearly a month's worth of storms could permanently damage or disable the Mars rovers exploring the Red Planet.
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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.