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1. Student Ready To Battle At 17th Annual Great Moonbuggy Race

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   Huntsville AL (SPX) Mar 09, 2010 - More than 100 student teams from around the globe will drive their specially crafted lunar rovers through a challenging course of rugged, moon-like terrain at NASA's ... Monday, 08 March 2010

2. Gorilla On Mars?

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   ... an optical illusions, folks from a very, very zoomed in image from the Mars rovers. The Sun newspaper seemingly started this foolishness on what must have been a slow news day. (...) Read the rest of ... Friday, 05 March 2010

3. Spirit Hunkered Down for Winter; Stuck Forever ? Maybe Not !

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   ... at this location on Mars adjacent to ‘Home Plate’, an eroded over volcanic feature. Credit: Marco Di Lorenzo, Ken Kremer - NASA/JPL/Cornell The plucky Mars rover ‘Spirit’ may yet rove again ! She’ll ... Wednesday, 03 March 2010

4. Investigating Material Ejected From Young Crater

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   Pasadena CA (SPX) Mar 02, 2010 - Opportunity Status for sol 2158-2165: Opportunity is located near the very young crater "Concepcion." The rover has been investigating the ejecta material around the ... Monday, 01 March 2010

5. Spirit In Energy Saving Mode

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   ... the rover for winter. ... Monday, 01 March 2010

6. Journey To The Center Of Mars

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   Huntsville AL (SPX) Feb 26, 2010 - February 24, 2010: Mars rover Spirit has tenaciously swept, scraped, and squeezed secrets from the forbidding surface of Mars for 6 years. Now at an impasse, up to ... Thursday, 25 February 2010

7. Spitzer, the Wallpaper Factory, Does it Again

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   At the end of the proverbial day, space-based missions like Spitzer produce millions of observations of astronomical objects, phenomena, and events. And those terabytes of data are used to test hypotheses ... Wednesday, 17 February 2010

8. Opportunity Studies Chocolate Hills Rock

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   Pasadena CA (JPL) Feb 12, 2010 - Opportunity is exploring around the rim of the very young crater "Concepcion." On Sol 2145 (Feb. 4, 2010), the rover made a 10-meter (33-foot) approach to a rock target ... Sunday, 14 February 2010

9. Movies of Spirit's Last Moves Before Winter

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   Even though the Spirit rover is stuck in a Martian sandtrap, the rover drivers were actually able to move her quite a bit, and therefore improving her chances of surviving the winter. This video shows ... Saturday, 06 February 2010

10. Movies of Spirit’s Last Moves Before Winter

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    Even though the Spirit rover is stuck in a Martian sandtrap, the rover drivers were actually able to move her quite a bit, and therefore improving her chances of surviving the winter. This video shows ... Saturday, 06 February 2010

11. Spirit Prepares for Winter

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    ... To prepare for winter, the project is taking actions to improve northerly tilt of the rover to maximize solar illumination. ... Wednesday, 03 February 2010

12. Special Edition of This Week in Space: NASA's New Budget

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    Miles O'Brien talks with several of the names in the news this week regarding the controversial NASA budget decisions: NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver, Senator Bill Nelson, Bret Alexander, ... Wednesday, 03 February 2010

13. Mars Rover? Nah… Southern Spirit!

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    ... it will traverse the country both east to west and north to south and offer an adventure you might never associate with a rail trip… Astronomy! (...) Read the rest of Mars Rover? Nah… Southern ... Tuesday, 02 February 2010

14. Will Bio Fuels Power Martian Colonies Instead Of Solar?

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    If I told you that your great, great, great grandkids would be building houses on that crimson world known as Mars, what would be the first thought to enter your head? Rovers? Check! A comfy Martian house? ... Tuesday, 02 February 2010

15. Can an Immobile Spirit Rover Survive the Martian Winter?

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    Mission managers for the Mars Exploration Rover program announced this week that the Spirit rover will likely never rove again on Mars. But that doesn't mean her life is over. However, with the ... Friday, 29 January 2010

16. New Amazing Mars Flyover Videos

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    ... wall on Mars, and below is Athabasca Valles. And Doug says more are on the way! If you recall, Doug created the flyover video of the Spirit rover's location that was on Astronomy Picture of the Day. ... Wednesday, 27 January 2010

17. Spirit Bogged In Sand: Now A Stationary Research Platform

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    Pasadena CA (JPL) Jan 26, 2010 - After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving ... Tuesday, 26 January 2010

18. No More Roving for Spirit

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    Artist concept of the Mars Exploration Rover on Mars. Credit: NASA The Spirit rover's driving days are likely over, as efforts to extricate the rover have been curtailed. "We do not believe ... Tuesday, 26 January 2010

19. No More Roving for Spirit; Stationary Science Ahead

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    Artist concept of the Mars Exploration Rover on Mars. Credit: NASA The Spirit rover's driving days are likely over, as efforts to extricate the rover have been curtailed. "We do not believe ... Tuesday, 26 January 2010

20. Spirit's Tracks

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    This view from the navigation camera near the top of the mast on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the tracks left by the rover as it drove southward and backward, dragging its inoperable right-front ... Monday, 25 January 2010