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NASA Mars Team Teaches Old Rovers New Tricks to Kick Off Year Four
12.28.06 - NASA's twin Mars rovers, nearing the third anniversary of their landings, are getting smarter as they get older.
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A Different Mars Underneath
12.13.06 - Mars is showing scientists its older, craggier face buried beneath the surface, thanks to a pioneering sounding radar co-sponsored by NASA aboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter.
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NASA Spacecraft Read Layered Clues to Changes on Mars
12.13.06 - Layers on Mars are yielding history lessons revealed by instruments flying overhead and rolling across the surface.
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NASA Images Suggest Water Still Flows in Brief Spurts on Mars
12.06.06 - NASA's Mars robotic missions are performing so well, they are being prepared for additional overtime work.
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NASA Mars Orbiter Photographs Spirit and Vikings on the Ground
12.04.06 - New images from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show three additional NASA spacecraft that have landed on Mars: the Spirit rover active on the surface since January 2004 and the two Viking landers that successfully reached the surface in 1976.
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NASA's Mars Global Surveyor May Be at Mission's End
11.21.06
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Ground Team Stays Busy on 10th Anniversary of NASA Mars Launch
11.07.06 - Engineers are striving to restore full communications with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor on the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft's Nov. 7, 1996, launch.
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Ground Team Stays Busy on 10th Anniversary of NASA Mars Launch
11.07.06 - Engineers are striving to restore full communications with NASA's Mars Global Surveyor on the 10th anniversary of the spacecraft's Nov. 7, 1996, launch.
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NASA Posts Panorama to Celebrate Rover's 1000th Martian Day
10.25.06 - NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will finish its 1,000th Martian day Thursday, continuing a successful mission originally planned for 90 Martian days.
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NASA Posts Panorama to Celebrate Rover's 1000th Martian Day
10.25.06 - NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit will finish its 1,000th Martian day Thursday, continuing a successful mission originally planned for 90 Martian days.
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NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details of Mars, Young and Old
10.16.06 - During its first week of observations from low orbit, NASA's newest Mars spacecraft is already revealing new clues about both recent and ancient environments on the red planet.
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NASA Orbiter Reveals New Details of Mars, Young and Old
10.16.06 - During its first week of observations from low orbit, NASA's newest Mars spacecraft is already revealing new clues about both recent and ancient environments on the red planet.
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NASA's Mars Rover and Orbiter Team Examines Victoria Crater
10.06.06 - NASA's long-lived robotic rover Opportunity is beginning to explore layered rocks in cliffs ringing the massive Victoria crater on Mars.
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NASA's Mars Rover and Orbiter Team Examines Victoria Crater
10.06.06 - NASA's long-lived robotic rover Opportunity is beginning to explore layered rocks in cliffs ringing the massive Victoria crater on Mars.
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NASA's New Mars Camera Gives Dramatic View of Planet
09.29.06 - Mars is ready for its close-up. The highest-resolution camera ever to orbit Mars is returning low-altitude images to Earth from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.
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NASA Mars Rover Arrives at Dramatic Vista on Red Planet
09.27.06 - NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity has arrived at the rim of a crater approximately five times wider than a previous stadium-sized one it studied for half a year.
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NASA Mars Spacecraft Gear Up for Extra Work
09.25.06 - NASA's Mars robotic missions are performing so well, they are being prepared for additional overtime work.
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Ground-Piercing Radar on NASA Mars Orbiter Ready for Work
09.19.06 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has extended the long-armed antenna of its radar, preparing the instrument to begin probing for underground layers of Mars.
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NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Reaches Planned Flight Path
09.12.06 - NASA's newest spacecraft at Mars has completed the challenging half-year task of shaping its orbit to the nearly circular, low-altitude pattern from which it will scrutinize the planet.
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NASA Findings Suggest Jets Bursting From Martian Ice Cap
08.16.06 - Every spring brings violent eruptions to the south polar ice cap of Mars, according to researchers interpreting new observations by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.