02.18.04 - Mariner 4 made history in 1965 by capturing Mars up close
02.09.04 - Wearing two watches, Jim Rice works in three time zones on two different planets simultaneously.
02.02.04 - NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced the Martian hills, located east of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover's landing site, would be dedicated to the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-107 crew.
02.03.04 - Scientists, engineers and imaging specialists work hard to provide a human-scale view of images taken by Spirit and Opportunity.
01.28.04 - The site where Opportunity landed will be named the Challenger Memorial Station.
01.28.04 - Spirit's first soil sampling creates excitement here on Earth.
01.27.04 - NASA memorialized Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chaffee by dedicating the hills surrounding Spirit's landing site to the Apollo 1 astronauts.
01.20.04 - Mice-astronauts will orbit Earth inside a spinning spacecraft to learn what its like to live on Mars
01.23.04 - On January 24, 2004, NASA's Mars rover Opportunity is scheduled to land on a Martian plain in search of evidence for water.
01.23.04 - The European Space Agency says its Mars Express orbiter has revealed the presence of water ice at the red planet's southern polar cap.
01.21.04 - Missions offer clues in hunt for new worlds
01.20.04 - The European Space Agency's Mars Express has sent back stunning high-resolution images of the planet's massive canyon, Valles Marineris.
01.16.04 - Landing on Mars was the first success. Now comes the fun of discovery with Spirit's on-board instrumentation.
01.13.04 - Master watchmaker Garo Anserlian is perfecting a timepiece for hundreds of Earthlings bound to Mars' irregular day.
01.10.04 - "Scientists have a crush on Mars, and it's hard not to look only for things we want to see," says Mars Exploration Rover scientist, John Grant.
01.09.04 - Traces of carbonate minerals showed up in Spirit's first survey of the site with its infrared sensing instrument, known as Mini-TES.
01.09.04 - Mars scientists are asking students from around the world to send in rocks to compare to the ones found on the red planet.
01.09.04 - While their peers sweat out their next quiz, high school students Courtney Dressing and Rafael Morozowski are sweating out the Mars mission.
01.06.04 - NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe today announced plans to name the landing site of the Mars Spirit Rover the Columbia Memorial Station.
01.04.04 - Jan. 3, 2004, saw a celebration worthy of a second New Year's Eve as NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit reached the surface of Mars and signaled that it was safe.