NASA funds extension of Mars rovers mission
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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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NASA has extended the mission of the Mars Odyssey orbiter which has been studying and mapping the Red Planet since early 2002 as well as serving as a relay for data from the surface rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
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NASA's Mars rovers don't seem to be wearing out, so mission planners have begun to think more boldly &#151; including a plan to let one climb up a steep slope from a crater it has been exploring to set out across a plain.
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WASHINGTON, Sept. 6  /PRNewswire/ -- NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is closing in on what may be the grandest overlook and richest science trove of its long mission.
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They're old and dirty, but NASA's Mars rovers are back in the exploration business after enduring a lengthy Red Planet dust bowl that blocked most of the sunlight they need for power.
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By MIKE SCHNEIDER CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Space shuttle Atlantis' astronauts will get to enjoy the view from space for a few extra days. NASA managers decided Monday to extend Atlantis' mission to the international space station from 11 to 13 days.
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After three years on Mars, NASA rovers built for a three-month mission face their toughest foe: Martian sandstorms blocking the sunlight that charges their batteries.
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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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LOS ANGELES Oct. 7, 2004 - 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 slope from a crater it has been exploring to set out across a plain.
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Jet Propulsion Lab -- NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, starting its third mission extension this week after seven years of orbiting Mars, is using an innovative technique to capture pictures even sharper than most of the more than 170,000 it has already produced.     One dramatic example from the spacecraft's Mars Orbiter Camera shows wheel tracks of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and the rover itself...
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AUCKLAND, Oct 19  - A company that supports the US science programme in Antarctica has been awarded a 546 million dollar extension to its contract, the US National Science Foundation (NSF) said in a statement Tuesday.
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NASA said on Tuesday it would extend the space shuttle Discovery's mission by one day to allow for a closer inspection of a flawed rotary joint that turns the solar arrays aboard the International Space Station.
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Description: The two Mars Rovers, Opportunity and Sprit, are showing signs of wear... not surprising, since their mission was expected to end in April.
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The ExoMars project to land a European robot rover on the Red Planet moves forward with an enhanced design.
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The Mars rover Opportunity has found new evidence of past existence of water on the Red Planet, NASA said. Opportunity keeps finding new clues of past water as it continues probing Mars, said mission scientists
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Four years after President Bush called for Americans to return to the moon and then voyage on to Mars, NASA is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to design, build and test the spacecraft that would make it possible.
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THE Mars rover Opportunity has found new evidence of past existence of water on the Red Planet, NASA said today. Opportunity keeps finding new clues of past water as it continues probing Mars, said mission