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Mars Rover Sees Variable Environment at Crater
05.21.09 - One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.
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Mars and Earth Activities to Get Spirit Rolling Again
05.18.09 - NASA's rover project team is using Spirit and other spacecraft at Mars to begin developing the best maneuvers for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become embedded.
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Soft Ground Endangers Spirit Despite Gain in Energy
05.11.09 - The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground.
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Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm Season
04.15.09 - Heading into a period of the Martian year prone to major dust storms, the team operating NASA's twin Mars rovers is taking advantage of eye-in-the-sky weather reports.
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Team Analyzes Spirit Amnesia Events
04.20.09 - After NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit had a bout of temporary amnesia on Friday, April 17 it rebooted its computer.
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Spirit Healthy But Computer Reboots Raise Concerns
04.13.09 - The team operating Spirit is examining data received from the rover to diagnose why the rover apparently rebooted its computer at least twice over the April 11-12 weekend.
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One Mars Rover Sees Distant Goal; One Takes New Route
03.18.09 - On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater that has been Opportunity's long-term destination for six months.
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NASA's Mars Rover Spirit Faces Circuitous Route
03.05.09 - Loose soil piled against the northern edge of a low plateau has blocked Spirit from taking the shortest route toward its southward destinations for the upcoming Martian summer and following winter.
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Spirit Gets Energy Boost from Cleaner Solar Panels
02.12.09 - A small but important uptick in electrical output from the solar panels on Spirit this month indicates a beneficial Martian wind has blown away some of the dust that has accumulated on the panels.
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Spirit Resumes Driving
02.02.09 - Spirit resumed driving Saturday after engineers gained confidence from diagnostic activities earlier in the week evaluating how well the rover senses its orientation.
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Mars Rover Team Diagnosing Unexpected Behavior
01.28.09 - Diagnostic activities performed by Spirit on Thursday, Jan. 29 narrowed the range of factors that may have contributed to its unexpected behavior earlier in the week.
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Public Events Mark Mars Rovers' Five-Year Anniversary
01.12.09 - Public events during the next two weeks will share the adventures of the still-active NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
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Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Science and Discovery
12.29.08 - NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity may still have big achievements ahead as they approach the fifth anniversaries of their memorable landings on Mars.
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Mars Rover Team Sets Low-Power Plan for NASA's Spirit
11.14.08 - After assessing data received from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on Thursday, mission controllers laid out plans for the rover to conserve its modest energy during the next few weeks.
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Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive From NASA's Spirit Rover
11.13.08 - Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting cheers among the rover team at JPL.
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Dust Storm Cuts Energy Supply of NASA Mars Rover Spirit
11.10.08 - A dust storm on Mars has cut into the amount of sunlight reaching the solar array on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, leaving the rover in a vulnerable state.
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NASA's Mars Rover to Head Toward Bigger Crater
09.22.08 - NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.
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NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground
08.29.08 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September.
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NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing out of Crater
08.26.08 - NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.
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Shoulder Motor Balks on Opportunity's Robotic Arm
04.23.08 - A small motor in the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity that began stalling occasionally more than two years ago has become more troublesome recently.