NASA rover begins drive into huge crater
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Two months after surviving a giant dust storm, one of NASA's robotic rovers on Mars began a risky drive Tuesday into a crater blasted open by a meteor eons ago.
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The Mars rover Opportunity survives its descent into the gigantic Victoria crater and pauses to collect data.
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Data from Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity shows its unique landing site is a prime spot for a return mission to look for life, scientists say.
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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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The Mars rover Opportunity has sent back its first color panorama of the large Martian crater it recently reached after a 21 month trek, and NASA scientists could barely contain their excitement about what they found.
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NASA scientists unveiled unprecedented close-up images of a massive crater on Mars they said could open the book on the Red Planet, from its formation to its history with water, the basis of life on Earth.
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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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NASAâs Mars rover Opportunity will finally enter a half-mile-wide crater after two months besieged by a giant dust storm.
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Images from the spacecraft show two craters that may have been altered by the recent flow of water
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SPACE.com / NASA's newest Mars orbiter has spied the plucky rover Opportunity perched at the rim of the red planet's massive Victoria Crater as both vehicles explore the fourth planet from the Sun.
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China launched its first lunar probe Wednesday, an initial step in an ambitious 10-year plan to send a rover to the moon and return it to Earth.
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The Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, will claim a place in history as tremendous successes. But to get the rovers ready for launch, mission team members had to push themselves to their limits. MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres explains how they handled the challenge.
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Nasa's Mars rover Opportunity is closing in on what may be the richest scientific "treasure trove" of its mission.
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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's Opportunity Mars rover is pictured from space by the recently arrived Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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A spacecraft equipped with the highest-resolution camera ever to orbit Mars has begun sending highly detailed images of a giant canyon on the red planet's surface, NASA said Friday.
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Almost by accident, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has found a rock that may point to a second water event in the red planet's past.