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One Mars Rover Sees Distant Goal; One Takes New Route
On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater that has been Opportunity's long-term destination for six months.
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Online Poll for NASA's Mars Rover Naming Contest Opens March 23
NASA will post online nine names that are finalists for the agency's Mars Science Laboratory mission and invite the public to vote for its favorite.
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Odyssey Spacecraft Reboots Successfully
NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's last reboot.
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Rebooting Postponed for Mars Odyssey
The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter postponed a planned rebooting of the spacecraft this morning after seeing an unexpected rise in the temperature of a star camera that is part of the navigation system.
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NASA's Mars Rover Spirit Faces Circuitous Route
Loose soil piled against the northern edge of a low plateau has blocked Spirit from taking the shortest route toward its southward destinations for the upcoming Martian summer and following winter.
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Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System
The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.
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Orbiter Resumes Normal Science Operations
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has fully recovered from an unexpected computer re-set last week and resumed its scientific investigation of Mars.
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Orbiter Puts Itself into Precautionary Mode
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter unexpectedly rebooted its computer Monday morning, Feb. 23, and put itself into a limited-activity mode that is an automated safety response.
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Spirit Gets Energy Boost from Cleaner Solar Panels
A small but important uptick in electrical output from the solar panels on Spirit this month indicates a beneficial Martian wind has blown away some of the dust that has accumulated on the panels.
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NASA Ames Director Named Federal Laboratory Director of 2009
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- Technology experts and entrepreneurs with a passion for solving humanity's grand challenges, will soon have a new place to exchange ideas and facilitate the use of rapidly developing technologies.
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NASA Ames Becomes Home To Newly Launched Singularity University
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif., -- Technology experts and entrepreneurs with a passion for solving humanity's grand challenges, will soon have a new place to exchange ideas and facilitate the use of rapidly developing technologies.
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Spirit Resumes Driving
Spirit resumed driving Saturday after engineers gained confidence from diagnostic activities earlier in the week evaluating how well the rover senses its orientation.
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NASA and Google Launch Virtual Exploration of Mars
MOFFETT FIELD, Calif. -- NASA and Google announced Monday the release of a new Mars mode in Google Earth that brings to everyone's desktop a high-resolution, three-dimensional view of the Red Planet.
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Mars Rover Team Diagnosing Unexpected Behavior
Diagnostic activities performed by Spirit on Thursday, Jan. 29 narrowed the range of factors that may have contributed to its unexpected behavior earlier in the week.
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Deadline Nears for Student Contest to Name NASA's Next Mars Rover
NASA is issuing a last call to the nation's youth for entries in a contest to name the agency's next Mars rover.
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Socializing on Mars
Mars Exploration Rovers have new life on the likes of "Second Life," "YouTube," "Unmannedspaceflight.com," and "Facebook."
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Mars Methane Discovery Reveals Activity on Red Planet
The first definitive detection of methane in the atmosphere of Mars indicates the planet is still alive, in either a biologic or geologic sense, according to scientists.
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Public Events Mark Mars Rovers' Five-Year Anniversary
Public events during the next two weeks will share the adventures of the still-active NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
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Mars Exploration Rovers Audio Clips - Five-Year Anniversary
Rover Project Manager John Callas gives some updates about the twin rovers.
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Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Science and Discovery
NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity may still have big achievements ahead as they approach the fifth anniversaries of their memorable landings on Mars.