NASA rovers will explore Mars for six more months
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PASADENA, CALIF. - The twin Martian robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity will explore the Red Planet for another six months, NASA said Tuesday.
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By Alicia Chang THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  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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ESA is preparing for future human exploration missions to Mars. We are currently looking for volunteers to take part in a 520-day simulated Mars mission.To go to Mars is still a dream and one of the last gigantic challenges.
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Data from Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity shows its landing site is a prime spot for a return mission to look for life.
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The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet.
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NASA's aging but durable Mars rover Opportunity will make what could be a trip of no return into a deep impact crater in an attempt to peer further back than ever before into the geologic history of the Red Planet.
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NASA&#39;s Mars Odyssey mission, originally scheduled to end on Tuesday, has been granted a stay of execution until at least September 2006, reveal NASA scientists.
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JPL - NASA's newest spacecraft at Mars has completed the challenging half-year task of shaping its orbit to the nearly circular, low-altitude pattern from which it will scrutinize the planet.
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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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People could land on Mars in the next 20 to 30 years provided scientists can find water on the red planet, the head of NASA's surface exploration mission said on Wednesday.
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Rolling, rolling, rolling. Keep those Mars rovers rolling. You can almost hear the crack of a Martian whip. Since January, NASAâs Spirit and Opportunity robots have been wheeling and dealing with the red planet.
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NASA has agreed to fund the Mars rover project for six more months, allowing two robotic vehicles to continue to study the red planet.
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Two Indiana University scientists have been tapped to help build two miniaturized instruments for NASA's next Mars rover mission, a traveling laboratory that will search for signs of past or present life.
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NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity will back its way out of a crater it has spent four months exploring after reaching terrain that appears too treacherous to tread.
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Thriving on NASAâs Mars Odyssey in January, 2004, NASA is going ahead with its plans for a new rover mission to the red planet. NASAâs massive Mars rover is said to be twice as long and three times as
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Ten months after NASA&#39;s twin rovers landed on Mars, scientists reported Thursday that both robotic vehicles were still navigating their rock- studded landscapes with all instruments operating, and both were discovering fresh evidence that water must have
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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.