01.15.09 - Mars Exploration Rovers have new life on the likes of "Second Life," "YouTube," "Unmannedspaceflight.com," and "Facebook."
01.02.08 - NASA's Spirit rover is spending its fourth anniversary on Mars at the northern edge of a low plateau. It landed on Mars Jan. 4, 2004, Universal Time (Jan. 3, 2004, Pacific Time).
12.13.07 - New software is helping the rover team find safe places for Spirit to ride out future Martian winters and places for future explorations by both Mars rovers.
› Ohio State University release →06.12.07 - Like Sun Belt retirees who complain about cold weather, NASA's Mars rovers are becoming less tolerant of temperature changes with age.
10.20.06 - For a brief time, the sun will get in the way of communications between Earth and Mars spacecraft, but mission teams are well prepared for this natural event called solar conjunction.
08.07.06 - August 8, 2006 is winter solstice on Mars, the shortest day of the Martian year.
04.04.06 - More than two years after landing on Mars, Spirit can only drive on five wheels.
03.20.06 - The rovers “keep on keeping on” despite having to drag squeaky wheels, losing full range of motion in stiff arms, and needing to reboot the ol’ computer brains every now and then to cure memory problems.
12.12.05 - As Opportunity opened her robotic eyes for the first time, it was clear Meridiani Planum was unlike any place NASA ever visited before.
12.09.05 - Look for Mars in the night sky on December 12, 2005, and wish Opportunity a Happy One Martian Year Anniversary!
12.09.05 - NASA's robotic explorers are showing us Mars is much more than just the "red planet."
11.21.05 - Since Spirit's landing on January 3, 2004, Mars has completed one orbit around the Sun. That's one martian year - about twice as long as a year on Earth. With this anniversary in mind, it's time to celebrate the rover's accomplishments.
11.09.05 - From working with prototype rovers in an Earth-bound sandbox, to driving on the actual red sands of Mars, Dr. Ashley Stroupe gets the best of both planets.
10.24.05 - What could have been dismissed as "just static" in a radio signal is actually an echo from Mars that might reflect the shape of hidden ice and rock structures beneath the martian surface.
10.20.05 - In fall of 2005, Mars will outshine most of the stars in the night sky.
10.05.05 - As the rovers keep journeying across the surface of Mars, scientists are busy churning out journal articles that herald the new discoveries revealed by their robot geologist partners.
08.17.05 - Blind students explore Mars with computer skills and adventurers' hearts.
04.28.05 - Spirit backs off from its first attempt to reach the top of the "Columbia Hills."
04.27.05 - The largest of the two is less than a foot wide.
04.11.2005 - Spirit spies a swarm of dust devils wheeling across the plains of Gusev Crater.