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Site List Narrows For NASA's Next Mars Landing
Four intriguing places on Mars have risen to the final round as NASA selects a landing site for its next Mars mission, the Mars Science Laboratory.
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NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars Rover
NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover.
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Mars Rover Team Sets Low-Power Plan for NASA's Spirit
After assessing data received from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on Thursday, mission controllers laid out plans for the rover to conserve its modest energy during the next few weeks.
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NASA Mars Lander Receives Award From Magazine
Phoenix has won recognition from Popular Science magazine as an innovation worthy of the publication's "Best of What's New" Grand Award in the aviation and space category.
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Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive From NASA's Spirit Rover
Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting cheers among the rover team at JPL.
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Mars Rover Spirit Remains Quiet as Dust Storm Weakens
A dust storm that has reduced power to NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is clearing, but the Spirit's status remains unknown on Wednesday.
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Dust Storm Cuts Energy Supply of NASA Mars Rover Spirit
A dust storm on Mars has cut into the amount of sunlight reaching the solar array on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, leaving the rover in a vulnerable state.
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Mars Phoenix Lander Finishes Successful Work
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has ceased communications after operating for more than five months.
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NASA Hearing Daily From Weak Phoenix Mars Lander
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has communicated with controllers daily since Oct. 30 through relays to Mars orbiters.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
Phoenix, with its solar-electric power shrinking due to shorter daylight hours and a dust storm, did not respond to an orbiter's attempt to communicate with it Wednesday night and Thursday morning.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
NASA'S Phoenix Mars Lander entered safe mode late yesterday in response to a low-power fault brought on by deteriorating weather conditions.
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NASA's Phoenix Mission Faces Survival Challenges
In a race against time and the elements, engineers with NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander mission hope to extend the lander's survival by gradually shutting down some of its instruments and heaters, starting today.
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NASA Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars.
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Phoenix Lander Finishes Soil Delivery to Onboard Labs
Phoenix has finished scooping soil samples to deliver to its onboard laboratories, and is now preparing to analyze samples already obtained.
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Phoenix Gets Bonus Soil Sample
Phoenix successfully delivered soil into oven six of the lander's thermal and evolved-gas analyzer on Monday, Oct. 13.
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Phoenix Mars Mission Honored by Popular Mechanics
NASA's Phoenix Mars Mission is being honored with a Breakthrough Award by Popular Mechanics magazine today in New York City.
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Phoenix Weathers Dust Storm
The Phoenix Lander over the weekend successfully weathered a regional dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power, and the team is ack investigating the Red Planet's northern plains.
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Phoenix Braves Dust and Winds
High winds and dust devils blew through Phoenix's landing site last weekend. These two short videos show them in action.
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Phoenix Digs Mars
NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has been digging and excavating Martian soil with its nearly 8-foot-long robotic arm. New images, like this one in 3D, show the trenchwork taken on Oct. 7.
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Phoenix Digs and Analyzes Soil as Darkness Gathers
As fall approaches Mars' northern plains, NASA's Phoenix Lander is busy digging into the Red Planet's soil and scooping it into its onboard science laboratories for analysis.