Control of Mars Rovers Shifts to Cornell
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Because his job involves driving around on Mars all day, Cornell University astronomer Steve Squyres is glad he no longer has to make a cross-country commute to get home.
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By A.J. Hostetler, Richmond Times-Dispatch, Va.  May 24--Engineers and technicians at Langley Research Center in Hampton are testing airbag designs that could help protect the next generation of moon walkers as they return to Earth.
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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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NASA is planning to add a strong dose of artificial intelligence (AI) to planetary rovers to make them much more self-reliant, capable of making basic decisions during a mission. Scientists are developing very complex AI software that enables a higher level of robotic intelligence.
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Clearing dust storms on Mars allow Nasa's robotic rovers to increase their workload.
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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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Also: Nasa's Mars rovers--'biggest breakthrough' in science in 2004. [News.com Extra]
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As Spirit and Opportunity continue their treks through the Martian winter -- still on duty nearly a year after their arrivals, back down on Earth, NASA is already planning the robot rover that will follow them.
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NASA&#39;s older Martian robotic rover, Spirit, has found evidence that underground water changed a major rock formation called the Columbia Hills, scientists said yesterday.
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Gusts of wind have cleared dust from  the solar collectors on one of two robot rovers on the surface  of Mars and both have awakened from the sleep NASA put them  into, the space agency said on Friday.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity seems to have stumbled into something akin to a carwash that has left its solar panels much cleaner than those of its twin rover, Spirit.
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LONDON - An unexplained phenomenon akin to a space-borne car wash has boosted the performance of one of the two US rovers probing the surface of Mars, New Scientist magazine said on Tuesday.
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As NASA (news - web sites)&#39;s Mars rovers keep rolling past all expectations of their useful lives, scientists have a happy mystery: For some reason one
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When one of NASA's rovers drills a hole in a rock on Mars some 200 million miles away, the commands come from Lower Manhattan.
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NASA&#39;s older Martian robotic rover, Spirit, has found evidence that underground water changed a major rock formation called the Columbia Hills, scientists said Thursday.
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The discovery by Nasa&#39;s robotic rovers of a watery past on Mars has topped a an eagerly awaited list of the 10 key scientific advances of 2004.
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PASADENA, Calif., Sept. 21 (AScribe Newswire) -- 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