Spirit Rover Disabled by Steering Problem
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A steering problem disabled the Mars Rover Spirit Oct. 1, NASA officials said yesterday. The robot has not moved since.
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Rolling, rolling, rolling. Keep those Mars rovers rolling. You can almost hear the crack of a Martian whip. Since January, NASAâs Spirit and Opportunity robots have been wheeling and dealing with the red planet.
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PASADENA, Calif.   The Mars rover Spirit has developed a problem with one of its six wheels, but NASA officials said Tuesday they believe the robot geologist can continue working.
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The Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, received another 6 months of funding from NASA. The two rovers were originally designed to complete a primary mission of three months, but have continued to operate for 5 additional months.
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It's been a watershed year  of science for&nbsp;the NASA&nbsp;Mars rover Spirit,&nbsp;a  six-wheeled&nbsp;automaton&nbsp;that continues to probe the red planet's  secrets&nbsp;as it clambers up the Columbia Hills.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rovers have uncovered more tantalizing evidence of a watery past on the Red Planet, scientists said Wednesday. And the rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, are continuing to do their jobs months after they were expected to ...
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The hardy Mars rover Opportunity is struggling to stay alive  amid a severe and long-lasting Martian dust storm -- posing the greatest threat so far to the unexpectedly long-lived vehicle.
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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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One hundred twenty scientists have published their current running tally of results from the Spirit rover. No lakebed evidence has been found yet, but scientists are impressed with the equipment's diagnostic capabilities so far...
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US space agency Nasa celebrates the first year on Mars of its Spirit robot rover vehicle.
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Upgrade your machine or risk falling off, company says Segway has asked its customers around the globe to return their "personal transporters" for a essential software update intended to eliminate an unfortunate glitch which, in the words of the manufacturer, "can unexpectedly reverse the direction of the wheels which can cause a rider to fall".â¦
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LONDON  -- Any one of a number of technical malfunctions might have caused the loss of Beagle 2, the ill-fated British space probe that vanished while attempting to land on Mars, an investigation found.      A six-month inquiry by project organisers, their second attempt to discover what went wrong with the mission, was unable to pinpoint why the tiny craft vanished shortly before it landed on Mars on Christmas Day last year...
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Also: Nasa's Mars rovers--'biggest breakthrough' in science in 2004. [News.com Extra]
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Something strange is happening on Mars. It seems something or someone is cleaning the windows on one of two rovers probing the surface of the red planet.
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Ten months after NASA&#39;s twin rovers landed on Mars, scientists reported this week that both robotic vehicles are still navigating their rock-studded landscapes with all instruments operating
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As NASA&#39;s Spirit and Opportunity rovers resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the Sun, the space agency extended funding for an additional six months of rover operations, as long as they keep working.
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London - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne carwash has boosted the performance of one of the two US rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.