Cornell moves into the driver&#39;s seat for Mars rovers
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Because his job involves driving around on Mars all day, Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres is glad he no longer has to make a cross-country commute to get home.
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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&#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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Scientists said Friday they are 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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The Mars Rover Opportunity has  arrived at the rim of a big crater that scientists never  thought it could reach, NASA said on Wednesday.
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SPACE.com / BOULDER, Colorado-It has been a long, hard drive on Mars for NASA's Opportunity rover.
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Nasa's Opportunity Mars rover is pictured from space by the recently arrived Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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Almost by accident, NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity has found a rock that may point to a second water event in the red planet&#39;s past.
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Scientists are selecting subjects to be locked in a self-sufficient capsule to test plans for a trip to Mars.
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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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While those unflappable interplanetary twins - Spirit and Opportunity - continue to trudge across Mars, engineers and scientists are readying the next robotic rover destined to trail across the distant sands of the red planet.
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The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft&#39;s flyby of Titan, the largest Saturnian moon, provided scientists Tuesday with ringside seats to view the solar system&#39;s
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NASA&#39;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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From 100 million miles away, 14 workers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory  take turns daily planning the routes, work schedules and areas to be explored by the two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, as they make their way across the Martian surface.
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LOS ANGELES -- After months of studying rocks and searching for water, the Mars rover Opportunity is taking a look at some of the junk it left behind during its fiery descent last January.
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Scientists have confirmed that the Opportunity Mars  rover has run across a meteorite, sitting within the robot's exploration zone at  Meridiani Planum.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity found evidence for a lake or sea on Mars, and new research suggests the body of water was deep, large and long-lasting.