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  • The panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit was taking exposures with different color filters during the 1,919th Martian day.

    › Colorful Effect from Sequential Shots of Moving Dust Devils

  • The navigation camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit caught this stereo view of a dust devil during the 1,913th Martian day.

    › Dust Devil West of Spirit, Sol 1913 (Stereo)

  • Rover team members prepare an experiment for assessing how a test rover moves when embedded in loose soil and commanded to drive backward with wheels turned.

    › Position Markers in Preparation for Test

  • Mars Exploration Rover team members prepare a testing setup for the Spirit rover.

    › After a Crabwalk Test

  • finished heat shield for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory

    › Large Heat Shield for Mars Science Laboratory

  • Engineers check the exact position of a test rover in preparation for the next test of a possible maneuver for Spirit to use on Mars.

    › Preparing for Next Test

  • Rover driver Paolo Bellutta measures how much the rover moved sideways, downslope, during the maneuver.

    › Assessing Movement of Test Rover

  • Sandbox setup to test and assess possible moves for getting Mars rover Spirit out of a patch of loose Martian soil.

    › Test Setup for Effort to Free Spirit

  • a test rover rolls off a plywood surface into a prepared bed of soft soil

    › Test Rover Sinks into Prepared Soil

  • Rover team members add a barrowful of soil mixture to the sloped box where a test rover will be used.

    › Filling the Simulated Sandtrap

  • Rover team members fill a mixer with powdered clay and diatomaceous earth.

    › Preparing a Test Mixture

  • soft soil exposed when wheels of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit dug into a patch of ground

    › Variations in Soft Soil of 'Troy' (False Color)

  • Traverse map until Sol 1923 for Mars Rover Opportunity

    › Opportunity's traverse map through Sol 1923

  • Traverse map until Sol 1923 for Mars Rover Spirit

    › Spirit's traverse map through Sol 1945

  • Pastel colors swirl across Mars

    › Improved Infrared Imaging from Changed Odyssey Orbit

  • Clara Ma and her sister Remmy Ma with engineers Suparna Mukherjee, Jaime Waydo and then Julie Townsend.

    › Clara Ma Tours JPL

  • Clara Ma with Suparna Mukherjee, Julie Townsend, and Jaime Waydo.

    › Clara Ma Visits with JPL Engineers

  • Rover-Naming Winner Signs Mars Rover Curiosity

    › Rover-Naming Winner Signs Mars Rover Curiosity

  • Winning Student in Contest to Name Mars Rover

    › Winning Student in Contest to Name Mars Rover

  • Essay Winner's Signature on NASA's Curiosity Rover

    › Essay Winner's Signature on NASA's Curiosity Rover

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