Conjunction Junction for the Mars Rovers
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In the next few weeks the twin Mars rovers will be out of touch with Earth when the Sun lines up to block communications. Daily operations will be taken over by longer-term instructions without radio links between the two planets.
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While those unflappable interplanetary twins - Spirit and Opportunity - continue to trudge across Mars, engineers and scientists are readying the next robotic rover destined to trail across the distant sands of the red planet.
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With each passing day, those peppy robots on Mars - Spirit and Opportunity - churn out extraordinary new views of the red planet. Each android is over a year in operation, relaying a steady stream of eye-catching photos.
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The Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, will claim a place in history as tremendous successes. But to get the rovers ready for launch, mission team members had to push themselves to their limits. MER Principal Investigator Steve Squyres explains how they handled the challenge.
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Findings in the Martian atmosphere by the European Mars Express spacecraft orbiting the red planet correspond to areas where the US Mars Odyssey spacecraft has detected possible water ice just beneath the surface.
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As NASA's Mars rovers keep rolling past all expectations of their useful lives, scientists have a happy mystery: For some reason one of the vehicles has actually gained power recently.
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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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NASA spacecraft enters circular Martian orbit    LOS ANGELES, Sept. 12 (Xinhua) -- The newest spacecraft to Mars, the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, has entered the nearly circular, low-altitude orbit from which it will scrutinize the planet, U.S. space agency said on Tuesday.
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Several crucial devices aboard NASA&#39;s Mars-bound Phoenix lander have passed in-flight testing.
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NASA&#39;s Mars rover Opportunity has arrived at its first stop inside an expansive crater, where it is poised to reach out and touch what may be the ancient remains of the red planet&#39;s surface, mission managers said Wednesday.
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Data obtained by the ESA probe Mars Express and the US spacecraft Mars Odyssey show that in some equatorial locations, low-atmosphere levels of water vapor and methane &quot;significantly overlap,&quot; says the ESA.
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Building on the success of the two wheeled geologists that arrived at Mars in January, 2004, NASA has begun planning a new rover mission to the red planet - the Mars Science Laboratory.
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Nasa's robotic Mars rover Opportunity reaches what researchers hope will prove to be a "dream" location -  the 800m-wide Victoria Crater.
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SPACE.com / BOULDER, Colorado - Ground controllers today successfully performed a major maneuver of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MOR)--an "end game" tactic that puts the orbiting probe a step closer to studying the red planet with its entire suite of science sensors.
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A spacecraft orbiting Mars photographed one of NASA's rovers and its tracks on the surface, the space agency said Monday.
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LIVELY MARS : ET might just be out there. NASA&#39;s two Mars rovers, Opportunity and Spirit, landed on the Red Planet early in 2004 and have since found conclusive evidence of water that could possibly have harboured life.
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The space agency taps Lockheed Martin and MD Robotics to build robotic technology it may use to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. By Amit Asaravala.