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Monday, Oct 19
MER Team Prepares to Extract Spirit
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Friday, Oct 2
Opportunity Finds Another Big Meteorite
It's amazing what a rover can find laying by the side of the road. The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found a rock that apparently is another meteorite. Less than three weeks ago, Opportunity drove away from a larger meteorite called "Block Island" that the rover examined for six we...
Monday, Apr 20
More Troubles for Spirit Rover
Poor Spirit. She’s getting old, arthritic and forgetful. The “oldest” of the two Mars Exploration Rovers had another bout of what engineers from JPL are calling “amnesia.” About a week ago, she experienced some unexpected reboots of her computer. Then, she had three good days in a row, compl...
Thursday, Feb 5
Opportunity Rover Sidelined by Charged Particle Hit
The Opportunity rover recently surpassed the five-year mark on Mars. And what did she get as a birthday present? A thorough zapping by a charged particle, perhaps a cosmic ray, which has sidelined the rover for the past several days. "Opportunity stood down for a few sols as a result of a PMA (...
Tuesday, Dec 23
How to Drive a Mars Rover, Part 3: Five Years on Mars
In preparation of celebrating Spirit and Opportunity's fifth anniversary on Mars in January, we've been talking with rover driver Scott Maxwell, getting updates on the two Mars Exploration Rovers and learning about what it really is like to drive the rovers. Today, Scott will share som...
Monday, Dec 22
How to Drive a Mars Rover, Part 2
Rover test bed. Credit: JPL If there's a particularly difficult situation, such as how much tilt can the rover withstand without tipping over, a test rover can go through the same sequences in a simulated Mars environment out in JPL's Mars Yard. Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh
Thursday, Dec 18
How to Drive the Mars Rovers, Part 1: Rover Updates
In January of 2004, NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, landed on the Red Planet. During those nearly five years, the rovers have returned hundreds of thousands of images and enough data to keep scientists busy for decades. But almost nine ye...
