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Rover Status
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Opportunity: More Targets at 'Block Island' >> |
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Second Test Rover Added to Driving Experiments
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Meteorite Found on Mars Yields Clues About Planet's Past
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Planned Rover Test to Run a Week or More
Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week.
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More Testing Before Driving on Mars
A review on Aug. 6 of test results to date yielded a decision to conduct further checkouts in an augmented testing set-up on Earth before beginning to send driving commands to Spirit.
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'Block Island' Meteorite on Mars, Sol 1961
Composition measurements by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirm that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite.
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Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity Rover
The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite.
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Free Spirit Testing Nearing Completion
Mars rover engineers at JPL are winding down testing of different escape maneuvers using a test rover in a sand box filled with soil to mimic the Martian surface.
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Longer Tests Beginning
Mars rover team members have begun a new phase of testing at JPL -- using longer-duration experiments -- in their preparations for driving Spirit again on Mars.
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Next Step: Combinations of Basic Moves
The Mars rover team is finishing tests of individual "building block" maneuvers and is about to begin stringing some of those together.
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Spirit's Look Ahead
This scene combines three frames taken by the navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the 1,869th Martian day, or sol, of Spirit's mission on Mars (April 6, 2009).
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more features
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Free Spirit: Rescuing a Rover Part 1 of 2 |
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Free Spirit : Rescuing a Rover Part 2 of 2 |
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Mars Exploration Rover Update,
July 15 Free Spirit - Measuring Progress |
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Weather Movie, Mars South Polar Region, March-April 2009 (Close) |
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Weather Movie, Mars South Polar Region, March-April 2009 (Far) |
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