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NASA's Mars rover Spirit is suffering a new bout of amnesia, one that comes after months of being stuck in deep Martian sand.

Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech) LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - The Mars Rover Spirit hasn't budged a centimeter for three months. The rover has been buried up to its ... and more »

Jelenleg is a vörös bolygót járja a Spirit és az Opportunity nevű Mars-rover, míg bolygó körüli pályáról tanulmányozza az égitestet a 2001 Mars Odyssey és a ...

by Energy Matters The Mars Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have certainly exceeded all expectations in terms of performance and are testimony to how much ...

Space.com Dust storms are currently stirring up the Martian skies in the region where NASA's Spirit rover is stuck in the sand. ... UPI NewsTrack Health and Science NewsTimes of the Internet all 7 news articles »

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26 (UPI) -- NASA says its Mars rover Spirit, which has been stuck in loose martian sand since April, is losing power due to a dust storm that's blocking its ... NASA Adds 2nd Test Rover to Help Free SpiritRobots.net Mars rover still stuck in martian sandUnited Press International

The meteorite that the Mars rover Opportunity discovered a few weeks ago is shedding more and more light on the past ... and more »

“Exo-Mars” provides delivery of a self-driven robot vehicle, similar to Spirit and Opportunity rovers, to the Red planet. The new Mars rover will weigh 200 ... and more »

NASA's robotic Mars geologist Spirit hasn't been idle while engineers at the Jet Propulsion Lab in Pasadena, Calif., try to figure out how to get its wheels ... Spirit Could Yet Rove For Many More SolsSpace Daily Planned Rover Test To Run A Week Or MoreSpace Daily

PASADENA - The Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that could provide ... Meteorite on Mars at least 3 billion years oldSan Francisco Chronicle Opportunity Rover As Seen From Mars OrbitMars Today (press release)

Thus far, several types of maneuvers have been tried out, but none of them showed clear signs of promise for freeing Spirit. “Mars rover team members are ... and more »

Landing instruments such as the twin Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the Phoenix Mars Lander on the surface of the ... and more »

A new view of Victoria crater, a past playground for the Opportunity Mars rover, reveals rock layers and wheel tracks left by the doughty explorer. ... Victoria Crater still looking lovelyNature.com (subscription) Pictured: Stunning new image of Mars show half-mile wide crater ...Daily Mail

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red ... and more »

Droid crawler in thrilling chase vs. (immobile) 'cobble' NASA's interplanetary robot rover "Opportunity", prowling the haematite steppes of the Meridiani Planum on Mars, has crept up on and photographed a mysterious space boulder or "cobble". Astro boffins theorise that the object m...

While the rover's landing site won't be as far north as was the Phoenix Mars Lander's (which landed last summer in the arctic plains of Mars), it will be further north of NASA's two rovers currently on the Martian surface, Spirit and Opportunity. ... Inside the rover factory msnbc.com

In an unassuming building at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory here, the struggle to free the Spirit rover from a patch of soft Martian sand has been brought to Earth. Spirit, one of the two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) currently on the surface of the ...

Winter is coming and Spirit is trapped out of the sustaining light of the sun. Five Years on Mars : SUN NOVEMBER 2 8P et/pt : http://channel ... it.truveo.com

 France Why do I do this? # Google Waves. Wow. http://wave.google.com/ # Woot! The IT-Harvest beer glasses came while I was in SA. Now, how to decide who to send them to?? # Mars rover, Spirit, stuck in sand. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ # topsy.com [...]

 OH By Steven Bushong Ohio State University mapping scientist Rongxing Li plans routes for Mars rover Spirit, which became trapped in a deep pocket of soft soil four weeks ago. Scientists are working to determine a way to free the machine so it can ...

The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is not the only ailing spacecraft currently at the red planet. Down on the planet's surface, NASA's Mars rover Spirit is stuck up to its hubcaps after snaring its six wheels in deep Martian sand. The rover recently used ...

 UK But what happens when the stuck vehicle is a robotic rover on the surface of Mars 36 million miles away? Nasa's Spirit rover ran into soft dirt in May after crawling across the red planet for five years. Now it has taken its very first snapshots of its ...

The stuck Mars rover Spirit has taken the very first snapshots of the ground beneath its belly, revealing what may be a rock that could obstruct Spirit's movement. But more pictures and tests are needed before mission members can develop a strategy for ... Mars Rover Suomen Kuvalehti

 AL On Mars, there's the Von Braun Mound, an informal name the Mars Rover teams at the Jet Propulsion Lab, in Pasadena, Calif., have given a jutting hill the sprouts out of the Martian surface, and the rover Spirit is headed for it one slow inch at a time. ...

 United Kingdom Nasa scientists are struggling to free their Mars rover after it became stuck in the mud on the red planet. The Spirit rover has run into soft dirt and is spinning its wheels after crawling across the planet for five years. Prof Prof Steve Squyres who ...

 CA Julie Townsend, a member of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory team that's trying to get the rover Spirit moving again on Mars, where it's now struck in soft soil, will speak at the Discovery Science Center in Santa Ana at 11 am on Saturday, May 30. Map. ...

 NY The Opportunity Mars rover has now passed the 10-mile mark on the red planet's surface, according to Softpedia. The milestone comes more than five years after the rover landed on Mars along with its twin, Spirit, on opposite sides of the planet. ...

 UK Legged robots, especially really maneuverable robots like a gecko-inspired robot, could crawl across Martian landscapes and avoid getting stuck." NASA's wheeled Mars rover Spirit got stuck in the sand earlier this month, and at last update, Rover team ...

 UK First there was Sojourner, then there were Spirit and Opportunity, and in a few years there will be . . . Curiosity. That's the official name given to NASA's next Mars rover, formerly called the Mars Science Laboratory, or MSL. ...

The last time I checked, we hadn’t put a man on Mars…… So who’s been cleaning the Mars “Opportunity” rover? According to the NASA rover team ... bretthenebery.wordpress.com

For two years, the Mars rover Opportunity explored the Victoria crater and dutifully sent back reports on the sedimentary rock layers on display in the crater walls and the scattering of pebbles on the sunken floor. ... Crater was Shaped by Wind and Water, Mars Rover Data Shows New York Times

By HENRY FOUNTAIN Those two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, have provided much information about the planet in the five years they've been rolling around the surface. Cape St. Vincent at Victoria Crater on Mars. The crater has widened, ...

 MO By Kim McGuire For the past two years, the seemingly unstoppable Mars rover, Opportunity, has traversed the Victoria crater on Mars, picking up clues about the Red Planet's wet and windy past. Now researchers — including two scientists from Washington ...

 CA by Staff Writers Rover team members continue their recovery strategy to extricate Spirit from the loose, soft terrain on the west side of "Home Plate." The rover continues to conduct extensive remote sensing observations of the local terrain. ...

Meanwhile, the twin rover Spirit appears to be stuck. by Nell Greenfieldboyce NASA's Mars rover Spirit slipped in soft ground during short backward drives in late April. Spirit used its front hazard-avoidance camera after driving to get this wide-angle ...

More than four years after its expected demise, the Mars rover Opportunity continues to send back valuable data as it crawls across the planet's surface. In a study published Thursday in the journal Science, researchers analyzing that data have found ...

Winter is coming and Spirit is trapped out of the sustaining light of the sun. vids.myspace.com

PASADENA, Calif., May 21 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Mars rover Opportunity has recorded environmental changes that occurred during ... www.upi.com

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The Spirit Mars rover has been stuck in the red planet's soil for a couple of weeks, so NASA is trying out a bunch of procedures--some involving other Mars craft--in order to figure out how to best extract Spirit from its predicament. ... NASA Works To Free Mars Rover Spirit OfficialWire

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 Canada In 2004, a large rock discovered on the surface of the Red Planet by the Mars rover Opportunity was dubbed "wopmay" — a gesture honouring the famous Canadian pilot made by former Geological Survey of Canada scientist John Grotzinger, one of the experts ...

  Canada In 2004, a large rock discovered on the surface of the Red Planet by the Mars rover Opportunity was dubbed "wopmay" — a gesture honouring the famous Canadian pilot made by former Geological Survey of Canada scientist John Grotzinger, one of the experts ...

Spirit took this image with its front hazard-avoidance camera on Day 1899 of its mission. NASA is pulling out all the stops to try to get the mired Spirit rover out of the Martian sand and rolling again. NASA's rover project team is using the Spirit ...

Jet Propulsion Laboratory  NY by OfficialWire NewsDesk PASADENA, CA — (OfficialWire) — 05/19/09 — The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit that's become immobilized in soft martian soil. The National Aeronautics and Space ...

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by Staff The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit that's become immobilized in soft martian soil. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said a diagnostic test conducted Saturday provided ...

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 Ohio The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit that's become immobilized in soft martian soil. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said a diagnostic test conducted Saturday provided ...

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Jet Propulsion Laboratory 18, 2004, three days after it successfully rolled off the lander. (UPI Photo/NASA/JPL) | Enlarge PASADENA, Calif., May 19 (UPI) -- The US space agency says it's considering the best maneuvers for freeing the Mars rover Spirit, which has become ...

 United States The Mars rover Spirit has become stuck in loose dirt while ambling around a low plateau, NASA said last week. NASA is working to free the 5-year-old machine, which has far outlasted its primary three-month mission. Zoos in the United States, ...

 FL Public Relations Chairman Dee Whittington explains why the changes were needed, and why the Suffolk Executive Airport is terrific location for the event. The Mars Rover Spirit is spinning its wheels. And a commercial liquid rocket developer celebrates ...

Boston (dbTechno) - NASA has a major problem on their hands as the Mars rover Spirit is stuck in the soft soil of the red planet. The Mars rover Spirit has managed to sink into the ground on the planet, with the wheels becoming stuck. ... Mars rover Spirit is stuck in sand Los Angeles Times

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 MD PASADENA, Calif. - The Mars rover Spirit has become stuck in loose dirt while ambling around a low plateau, NASA said yesterday. The rover slipped during a recent series of backward drives and its wheels were stuck halfway in the ground. ...

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PASADENA, Calif., May 12 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Mars rover Spirit is facing a dangerous situation, slipping in soft soil with its ... www.upi.com

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Spirit, one of the two Mars rovers, is stuck in loose dirt. A team at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is working with a model of the rover here ... fhsukams.wordpress.com

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By Emma Woollacott PASADENA, CALIFORNIA - The Mars rover Spirit is stuck in soft sand on Mars, and controllers are scratching their heads trying to work out how to extricate it. In a phenomenon familiar to any driver who has got stuck in the mud, ...

 United States By ERIC BERGER The Mars rover Spirit has become stuck in soft Martian dirt while driving along a low plateau. NASA officials said Monday that engineers had temporarily stopped sending driving commands to Spirit while they diagnose the problem. ...

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gt;The long-lived Mars rover Spirit is stuck in the sand on Mars, and controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., are scrambling to extricate the vehicle before it becomes entombed on the Red Planet. ... NASA Mars Rover Spirit Stuck In The Soft Soil Of Red Planet dBT...

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 AZ PASADENA — The Mars rover Spirit has become stuck in loose dirt while ambling around a low plateau, NASA said Monday. The rover slipped during a recent series of backward drives and its wheels were stuck halfway in the ground. A team at NASA's Jet ...

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By John Johnson Jr. The long-lived rover Spirit is stuck in the sand on Mars, and controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge are scrambling to find a way to extricate the vehicle before it becomes entombed on the Red Planet. ...

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 FL NASA/JPL via Getty Images) PASADENA, Calif. (AP) - The Mars rover Spirit has gotten stuck in soft Martian dirt while driving along a low plateau. NASA said Monday that engineers have temporarily stopped sending driving commands to Spirit while they ...

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 NV AP) - The Mars rover Spirit is stuck in soft Martian soil while driving along a low plateau. NASA said Monday engineers have temporarily stopped sending driving commands to Spirit while they diagnose the problem. The six-wheeled Spirit has five ...

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 CA By Alfred Lee, Staff Writer The five-year-old Mars Rover Spirit has been stuck in loose soil since May 1, Jet Propulsion Laboratory officials said Friday. Mission planners will simulate conditions in a JPL lab before attempting to move Spirit any ...

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LA CAÑADA FLINTRIDGE - After five years of scurrying around hostile terrain and toughing out six-month Martian winters, the Mars Rover Spirit ... www.whittierdailynews.com

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 ca Continuing on your trek visiters might have came across the Kids Mars Rover, which would be making its way across a row of kids. A smaller, unrefined version of Spirit and Opportunity, the two rovers that are wandering around on Mars, was driven over ...

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 ...

  United States For the United States to continue to enjoy its position as a global leader in research and technology, triumphs like the Mars rover program need to continue. Even in the potential death of Spirit, the lessons learned will have benefits for years.

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The video presents 3 panoramas taken by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during its ride toward the position called "Larr... it.truveo.com

The orbiter is capable of taking pictures at a resolution that is similar to that of the best Earth-observing satellites in our planet's orbit. This wonderful achievement was completed in 2008 by the successful deployment of the Phoenix Mars Lander, ...

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It's been a worrying month for the health of Mars Expedition Rover Spirit. Two weeks ago, the embattled robot failed to wake up after three successive communication sessions, and then over the Easter weekend (April 12th and 13th), mission HQ noticed ...

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At the ripe old age of five the Mars rover Spirit is starting to show signs of its age, and NASA scientists are beginning to wonder how much longer it can continue to roll across the Red Planet. Over the past few weeks the rover once ignored its ... Mars Rover Spirit Has More Problems Post Chronicle

PASADENA, Calif., Apr 21, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- The US space agency reports more problems with its Mars exploration rover Spirit in behaviors similar to events that occurred about a week ago. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists ...

 DC After five years, the Mars rover Spirit is still sending NASA scientists data intermittently, long after its three-month mission was supposed to end. Despite mechanical and computer problems, the rover continues to crawl across the Home Plate plateau, ...

Video on Mars presenting the anaglyph of the Cahokia panorama taken by the Mars Rover Spirit during the MER Mission. Great astronomical video for ... fr.truveo.com

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NASA's aging Mars rover Spirit has rebooted its computer at least twice for unknown reasons.

 ME After writing her dissertation on North Sister in the Three Sisters volcanic field in Oregon, she joined the mission working with the Mars rover Spirit. She spoke with Colby staff writer Laura Meader about rocks, water, and life on Mars. ...

AP) — NASA's aging Mars rover Spirit has rebooted its computer at least twice for unknown reasons. Rover project manager John Callas at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena said Monday that the rover is in a stable operations state called ...

 MD The Randolph K. Bromery Seminar — "Recent Discoveries by the Spirit Mars Rover: Evidence for a Fossil Hydrothermal System" with Mariek Schmidt, Smithsonian Institution. Sponsored by Earth and Planetary Sciences. Olin Hall Auditorium. ...

Spirit and Opportunity are still roaming the surface of Mars. These rovers have far exceeded NASA's expectations. They continue to gather important images and data from the red planet. The rovers have been collecting data nearly 2000 martian days. ...

 MI The next Mars rover will dwarf Spirit and Opportunity — missions that were, incidentally, designed to last three months and are still going strong after more than five years! The Mars Science Laboratory, now scheduled for launch in the fall of 2011, ...

 Romania By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor The resilient Mars rover has managed just recently to get a first glimpse of its destination, the Endeavor crater, towards which the robot has been traveling for more than 6 months. It's panoramic cameras have revealed ...

Nasa's robotic Mars rover, Opportunity, has arrived at what scientists call a "dream location" on the planet. it.truveo.com

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Nasa's new Mars probe has taken a spectacular picture of the Opportunity rover sitting on a crater's rim. Nasa scientists unveiled the image ... it.truveo.com

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 CA - A small but important uptick in electrical output from the solar panels on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit this month indicates a beneficial Martian ...

PR Newswire (press release), NY Other notable Delta II missions include critical NASA missions such as the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, MESSENGER, Phoenix Mars Lander, GLAST, THEMIS, STEREO, Deep Impact and the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) spacecraft, as well as the USAF ...

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By Aerospace Daily & Defense Report Controllers are driving NASA's Spirit Mars Exploration Rover once more, after a diagnostic test suggested the accelerometers that help the rover determine its orientation on the surface of Mars may be off by about 3 ...

 Romania By Tudor Vieru, Science Editor On Saturday, experts at NASA finally resumed breathing, after the Mars rover Spirit eventually snapped out of its mysterious set of problems and started moving on the Martian surface again, following several days of not ...

This name would also honor Beagle 2, the Mars rover built by the European Space Agency, but lost in 2003. Next week will see the closing of the contest, ... On This Day: Second NASA Rover Lands on Mars findingDulcinea NASA Marshall Scientist Guides Mars Rover 'Spirit' Space Ref (press release)

By Sharon Begley The two Mars rovers that have been investigating the geology (areology?) of the red planet since soon after they landed on opposite sides of Mars in 2004 have nice, safe names that combine solidity and seriousness with a soupcon of inspiration: Spirit and Opportunity. Can you do better?

After all, it seems the Phoenix Mars lander succumbed to an arctic dust storm-induced drained battery, and Spirit was also hit by the solar panel's old foe, a dust storm in Gusev Crater. But the key point that needs to be remembered in ...

By Casey Kazan Daily Galaxy Editorial Staff Mars has been the focus of much attention this year given the successes and challenges facing first, the Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and later the Phoenix Mars Lander. Add to that the three orbiting spacecraft, ...

By asa(asa@mozilla.org) The Mars Exploration Rovers are starting to get a break in the bad weather. It's not a lot, but enough to move Opportunity out of the critical zone. Spirit's actually getting a bit less light than earlier, but the rover's in no danger and the storm seems to be clearing slowly. Comments for "rove...

By asa(asa@mozilla.org) I mentioned about two weeks ago that the Mars Exploration Rover, Opportunity, was "weathering a nasty dust storm that's obscuring enough of the Sun's light that the rover is only able to charge its batteries to about 1/3rd of maximum. This means no major activity for Opportunity until the...

By asa(asa@mozilla.org) update: From images and data gathered by the amazing Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, here's a glimpse of where Opportunity sits, on the edge of Victoria Crater, awaiting an opportunity to descend. Comments for "opportunity riding the storm out"

By Leonard David NASA’s Opportunity Mars rover has a tough assignment ahead - perhaps driving down into the large Victoria crater that it’s presently surveying. But before “wheels down” into Victoria, a careful safety review that involves NASA Headquarters must conclude that the trip is doable. That’s...