Opportunity Rover to Pack Up and Leave Crater
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NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity will back its way out of a crater it has spent four months exploring after reaching terrain that appears too treacherous to tread.
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After an arduous 21-month journey, the Mars rover Opportunity edged close enough to the rim of a large crater yesterday to send back its first photos of the bottom and rocky sides of the dramatic site. What they showed left researchers increasingly confident that their robotic explorer had reached...
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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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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's rover Opportunity has reached its first stop inside a huge Martian crater and was poised Thursday to carry out the first science experiments.
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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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GOLDEN, COLORADO -- Any high hopes of sustaining expeditions on the Moon, Mars or beyond will depend on getting &quot;down and dirty&quot; on those worlds -- in the form of using on-the-spot resources.
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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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Nasa's robotic rover Opportunity sends back more images as it edges towards Victoria Crater.
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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 &quot;escape hatch&quot; from a crater it has been exploring and set out on a trek across a plain.
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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.
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NASA's Mars  rover Opportunity&nbsp;will back its  way out of a&nbsp;crater it has spent four months exploring after reaching terrain&nbsp;that appears  too treacherous to tread.&nbsp;
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NASA&#39;s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has returned this view of its discard heat shield, which crashed to the planet&#39;s surface during the craft&#39;s descent and landing last January.
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If peace on earth is no longer feasible by the end of the century, you may have another option: Move to Mars! Yesterday, the head of NASA&#39;s surface exploration mission said if we can find water on the red
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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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Opportunity knocks... Opportunity, the Mars rover, is edging ever closer to the edge of the Victoria crater, which has been its goal for more than half its time on the red planet.â¦
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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.