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May 11, 2009 Soft Ground Puts Spirit in Danger Despite Gain in Daily EnergyThe 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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May 7, 2009 NASA Releases Interactive 3-D Views of Space Station, New Mars RoverNASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover. |
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May 6, 2009 Productive Mars Camera Team Accelerates ReleasesCamera-team members are now posting tens of thousands of new image products each month from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. |
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May 4, 2009 Happy 20th Birthday To NASA's Magellan Mission!Launched May 4, 1989, NASA's Magellan spacecraft went on to map 99 percent of the surface of planet Venus. |
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May 4, 2009 NASA Selects JPL Experiment for European Mars MissionAn investigation selected by NASA will help researchers dissect the internal structure of Mars by analyzing variations in the planet's rotation. |
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April 24, 2009 Spirit Resumes Driving While Analysis of Problem Behaviors ContinuesNASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove on Thursday for the first time since April 8, acting on commands from engineers who are still investigating bouts of amnesia and other unusual behavior exhibited by Spirit in the past two weeks. |
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April 23, 2009 Live JPL Open House Video/Chat: Next Best Thing to Being ThereDon't worry if you can't attend this year's annual Open House at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. - just throw on your fuzzy slippers, switch on your computer and join us for a live video stream and chat. |
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April 20, 2009 Team Continues Analyzing Spirit Computer Reboots and Amnesia EventsAfter three days of completing Earth-commanded activities without incident last week, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit had a bout of temporary amnesia Friday, April 17, and rebooted its computer Saturday, April 18, behavior similar to events about a week earlier. |
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April 15, 2009 Mars Spacecraft Teams on Alert for Dust-Storm SeasonHeading 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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April 14, 2009 Testing the Parachute for Mars Science LaboratoryThe parachute for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory passed flight-qualification testing in March and April 2009 inside the world's largest wind tunnel, at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, Calif. |
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April 13, 2009 Spirit Healthy but Computer Reboots Raise ConcernsThe team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is examining data received from Spirit in recent days to diagnose why the rover apparently rebooted its computer at least twice over the April 11-12 weekend. |
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March 30, 2009 NASA Team Finds Riches in Meteorite Treasure HuntJust before dawn on Oct. 7, 2008, an SUV-sized asteroid entered Earth's atmosphere and exploded harmlessly over the Nubian Desert of northern Sudan. |
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March 30, 2009 Spirit Churns Up Bright SoilNASA's Mars rover Spirit exposed bright Martian soil on a recent drive heading southwest. |
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March 25, 2009 Images of an Unearthly SpringNew images from the high-resolution camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show intriguing patterns near Mars' south pole. |
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March 24, 2009 Cassini Provides Virtual Flyover of Saturn's Moon Titan"Fly me to the moon"-to Saturn's moon Titan, that is. New Titan movies and images are providing a bird's-eye view of the moon's Earth-like landscapes. |
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Kepler's First Views |
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JPL Open House: May 2 & 3 |
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Parachute Test for Mars |
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Eyes on the Earth 3D |
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Cool Stars |
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