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Video on Mars presenting Astronomy Software. Video showing panoramas and images, including the "Santa Anita" panorama, taken by NASA's Mars Rover Spirit more...during the Mars Exploration Rover Mission. The video was created with the use of virtual reality astronomy software VRMars-Sp...

By Tom While the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was taking exposures with different color filters during the 1,919th Martian day of the rover’s mission (May 27, 2009), dust devils moved across the field of view. Because several seconds intervened between s...

By Tom Stuck Rover The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is stuck in the soft soil near “Home Plate” — this is not good obviously but it’s worse than that.  Not only is the rover stuck there is a possibility it is “high centered” on a mound of rocks under its belly.  To add insult to injury, a left [...]

Assistant Professor of Planetary Science Oded Aharonson has been selected by NASA to join the Mars Exploration Rover Participating Scientist Program. Aharonson, one of eight investigators chosen from 35 applicants, will use the rovers to look at Martian dirt and rocks to see if liquid...