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Nine-Year-Old Mars Rover Passes 40-Year-Old Record
05.16.13 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity now holds the record for farthest driving by a NASA vehicle on a world away from Earth, passing a mark set by an Apollo astronaut-driven rover.
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Opportunity Exits Standby, Back at Work
04.29.13 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has exited a standby mode and is now executing a sequence of commands sent by the rover team.
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NASA's Veteran Mars Rover Ready to Start 10th Year
01.22.13 - Though NASA's newer Mars rover has been capturing more attention recently, durable Opportunity remains hard at work after nine years of roving on the Red Planet.
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NASA Opportunity Rover Does Walkabout of Crater Rim
12.04.12 - The latest work assignment for NASA's long-lived Mars rover Opportunity is a further examination of an area where the robot just completed a walkabout.
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Regional Dust Storm Dissipating
11.27.12 - A regional dust storm on Mars, tracked from orbit since Nov. 10, appears to be abating rather than going global.
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Spacecraft Monitoring Martian Dust Storm
11.21.12 - A Martian dust storm that NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has been tracking since last week has also produced atmospheric changes detectable by rovers on Mars.
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Mars Rover Opportunity Working at 'Matijevic Hill'
09.28.12 - The mission team for NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity will be awarded the Haley Space Flight Award.
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NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Reveals Geological Mystery
09.14.12 - NASA's long-lived rover Opportunity has returned an image of the Martian surface that is puzzling researchers.
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NASA Mars Exploration Rover Team to be Honored
09.07.12 - The mission team for NASA's long-lived Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity will be awarded the Haley Space Flight Award.
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Mars Panorama - Next Best Thing to Being There
07.05.12 - A 360-degree view combining 817 separate images displays features that surrounded NASA's Mars rover Opportunity during a four-month winter work campaign.
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Dark Shadows on Mars: Scene from Durable NASA Rover
05.22.12 - Late-afternoon shadows add punch to a false-color vista of Endeavour Crater on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover.
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Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter
05.09.12 - With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop where it spent its fifth Martian winter.
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Paydirt at 8-Year-Old Mars Rover's 'New Landing Site'
05.03.11 - A crater NASA's Mars rover Opportunity drove for years to reach is paying off with evidence about wet environments older than any recorded at sites the rover has seen before.
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Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work
01.24.12 - On the eighth anniversary of starting to explore Mars, NASA's rover Opportunity remains busy with new investigations.
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'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover
01.05.12 - Researchers plan to keep NASA's Opportunity rover busy through Martian winter at a sun-facing site, "Greeley Haven," where a study of the planet's core has begun.
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NASA Presents Software of the Year Award
12.08.11 - Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS), novel autonomy software that has been operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity since December 2009, is NASA's 2011 Software of the Year recipient.
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NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water
12.07.11 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water.
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Video Documents Three-Year Trek on Mars by NASA Rover
10.10.11 - A sequence of images, each taken at the end of a Martian day's drive, and a soundtrack from rover accelerometer data make a unique audio-visual record of a trek on Mars.
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NASA Mars Rovers Win Magazine's 'Breakthrough' Award
10.03.11 - NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the team that made and operated them, will receive a lifetime achievement award from Popular Mechanics magazine this month.
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JPL Participates in Space-Themed Corn Maze
09.28.11 - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is joining forces with Utah's original corn maze, Cornbelly's Corn Maze and Pumpkin Fest, for a kickoff celebration on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.