Browse Archive
-
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.
› View This Video -
Spirit of Mars
Six years of exploration through the "eyes" of the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit
› View This Video -
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.
› View This Video -
Free Spirit: Six Years on Mars
On their sixth anniversary of landing on Mars, one of two scrappy rovers faces an uncertain future.
› View This Video -
Free Spirit: Plotting an Escape
NASA's long-running Mars rover Spirit will begin critical drives for escaping a sand trap.
› View This Video -
Free Spirit - A Second Rover Rolls in Test Area
JPL engineers are using a second, lighter rover to test maneuvers to free Spirit.
› View This Video -
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.
› View This Video -
Free Spirit: Exploring Options
JPL engineers are trying out maneuvers with a test rover on Earth, to plan an escape on Mars for Spirit.
› View This Video -
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.
› View This Video -
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.
› View This Video -
Mars Exploration Rover Update
Being a rover on Mars , one can encounter trying times and triumph. Spirit and Opportunity are currently experiencing both.
› View This Video -
Rover Undergrad
Internships at JPL helped one woman build her career as a software engineer working on robotics.
› View This Video -
Mars Exploration Rover Update
Both rovers have had a little trouble recently, but now they're both back on the road and driving again.
› View This Video -
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."
› View This Video -
5 Years and Still Roving on Mars - Opportunity
Opportunity landed near a geological treasure trove on Mars – and that was just the beginning of the rover's discoveries.
› View This Video -
Astronaut Congratulates Mars Rovers From Space
Astronaut E. Michael Finke, commander of the Expedition 18 crew currently aboard the International Space Station, has sent a congratulatory video message to NASA's Mars Exploration Rover team in honor of the rovers’ fifth anniversary.
› View This Video -
A Tale of Two Rovers
Spirit and Opportunity have been roving the red planet for five years.
-
Five Years on Mars
In January, JPL will celebrate the fifth anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity landing on Mars, and the twin rovers will continue with their newest adventures.
› View This Video -
Rover Flight Director Report
Spirit is talking again, after a dust storm put her in a vulnerable state. Engineers hope her energy will continue to improve.
› View This Video -
Rover Flight Director Report
After surviving a long, cold winter on Mars, both Spirit and Opportunity are on the move again, heading for intriguing science features.
› View This Video
 "artist concept of rover on Mars")
 "Mars Exploration Rover Spirit")
 "Opportunity: Making Tracks on Mars")
 "Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's six year anniversary")
 "Plan for Getting Mars Rover Moving")
 "testing rover")
 "Spirit: Measuring Progress")
 "Free Spirit: Exploring Options")
 "Rover testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory")
 "JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update")
 "Image of Mars")
 "Lucy Abramyan")
 "Spirit's view on Mars")
 "mars panorama")
 "Opportunity rover")
 "Astronaut Mike Finke")
 "Steve Squyres")
 "Mars Exploration Rover Spirit")
 "Ashley Stroupe")