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Spirit of Mars
Six years of exploration through the "eyes" of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit
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Spirit: Six Years of Roving Mars
After six years on the move, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit prepares for a new phase of science.
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Opportunity: Making Tracks on Mars
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity took a break from crater-hopping to check out a rock that originated deep in the planet's crust.
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Free Spirit: Six Years on Mars
On their sixth anniversary of landing on Mars, one of two scrappy rovers faces an uncertain future.
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Free Spirit: Plotting an Escape
NASA's long-running Mars rover Spirit will begin critical drives for escaping a sand trap.
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Mars - Exposed
How meteorites uncovered a Martian secret.
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Free Spirit - A Second Rover Rolls in Test Area
JPL engineers are using a second, lighter rover to test maneuvers to free Spirit.
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Free Spirit: Measuring Progress
Engineers continue crab-driving a test rover at JPL in an effort to plan how to dislodge Spirit from loose sand on Mars.
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Free Spirit: Exploring Options
JPL engineers are trying out maneuvers with a test rover on Earth, to plan an escape on Mars for Spirit.
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Free Spirit - Into the Sandbox
Rover Project Manager John Callas explains how getting a test rover stuck in a sandbox on Earth may help get Spirit out of a predicament on Mars.
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JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update
While the Spirit rover is embedded on Mars, engineers are working to create a 'Mars-scape' on Earth to test an escape plan.
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Mars Exploration Rover Update
Being a rover on Mars , one can encounter trying times and triumph. Spirit and Opportunity are currently experiencing both.
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Soaring Over Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gives us an unprecedented bird's-eye view of the Red Planet.
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Mars Landing for MSL
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment in orbit around Mars has examined many possible landing sites for the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory rover, including the Nili Fossae area seen here.
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Mars Science Laboratory
This animation demonstrates how the rover will enter, descend and land on the surface of Mars.
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Rover Undergrad
Internships at JPL helped one woman build her career as a software engineer working on robotics.
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Building a Clean Dream Machine for Space
Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Clean Room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and see the construction of NASA's next mission to Mars.
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Mars Science Laboratory
Did Mars once have an environment capable of supporting life? NASA's next rover will further unravel that mystery.
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Mars Exploration Rover Update
Both rovers have had a little trouble recently, but now they're both back on the road and driving again.
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5 Years and Still Roving on Mars - Spirit
NASA's Spirit rover has faced several challenges over the past five years but it's always been "the little rover that could."
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