Mars Rovers&#39; Mission Extends with New Goals, New Funding
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The Mars rovers emerged from a communications blackout period and the low point of winter today with new funding and big plans for the journey ahead.
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Guaranteed to survive just 90 days, the Mars rovers are thriving, giving hope to scientists that more discovery lies ahead.
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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
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NASA's adventurous Discovery program--responsible for the first rover on another planet, the first landing on an asteroid, the first samples of a comet returned to Earth and much more--is about to get even better.
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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 agrees to fund the Mars rover project for six more months, allowing further study.
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The Mars rovers fuel their instruments by following the sun and as their energy budget gets tighter during the winter, their terrestrial drivers get more skilled at driving towards the light.
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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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Both rovers, the Spirit and the Opportunity, have more than doubled their intended lifetimes of three months.
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Updated photos from the Mars rovers allow us to look back at the three-year mission.
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Summary - (Oct 8, 2004) Now operating three times longer than originally expected, NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Rovers are still turning up fresh evidence that liquid water once flowed on Mars.
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When scientists wanted to explore what kind of life might exist on Mars, public television&#39;s &quot;NOVA&quot; recorded the building and launch of the rovers sent to the planet.
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ORLANDO, Florida -- Replanting boot prints on the Moon. Hurling expeditionary crews to distant and dusty Mars and other destinations. Executing a 21st century outreach campaign to faraway worlds demands a safe, sustainable, and affordable transport vehicle system.
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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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Researchers at Cornell University are still sending messages to Mars giving instructions to the rover, Opportunity. &quot;Telling the rover how to point the cameras, and then how to take the images, what kind of
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Scientists of the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration say its spacecraft Mars Odyssey will prolong its stay in space until at least September 2006.
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NASA is paying for the Mars Rovers to keep working. The twin rovers &quot;Spirit&quot; and &quot;Opportunity&quot; landed on the surface of Mars last January.