Rovers resume search for life on Mars
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AGEING 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 and keep finding
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The twin rovers  on Mars are in good shape today despite widespread dust storms that worsened last week  and threatened to cut off solar power to the robotic explorers.
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Nasa's robotic rover Opportunity sends back more images as it edges towards Victoria Crater.
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NASA has announced that its Mars robots Spirit and Opportunity would work six months longer than expected. NASA made the decision after re-establishing radio contact with the twin rovers, which had spent 12 days behind the Sun.
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Building on the success of the two wheeled geologists that arrived at Mars in January, 2004, NASA has begun planning a new rover mission to the red planet - the Mars Science Laboratory.
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NASAâs Mars rovers have had their missions extended by a further six months after weathering the Martian winter solstice, NASA announced on Tuesday.
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PASADENA, Calif. 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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NASA has funded another extension of their mission -- an additional six months, if they last. Word from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is that NASA has regained reliable contact with the rovers Spirit and Opportunity
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Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity are going strong 10 months after they began their geological study of the red planet, mission scientists said Thursday.
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Three years after the two Mars rovers were expected to stop working, they're still exploring the red planet, having shut down for the better part of two months because of dust storms.
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An orbiting spacecraft has sent back new evidence for the presence of water on Mars.
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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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Clearing dust storms on Mars allow Nasa's robotic rovers to increase their workload.
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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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US scientists have found new data showing patterns of water and methane on Mars could improve the chances life once existed there.
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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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A steering problem disabled the Mars Rover Spirit Oct. 1, NASA officials said yesterday. The robot has not moved since.