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Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter
05.09.12 - With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop where it spent its fifth Martian winter.
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Paydirt at 8-Year-Old Mars Rover's 'New Landing Site'
05.03.11 - A crater NASA's Mars rover Opportunity drove for years to reach is paying off with evidence about wet environments older than any recorded at sites the rover has seen before.
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Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work
01.24.12 - On the eighth anniversary of starting to explore Mars, NASA's rover Opportunity remains busy with new investigations.
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'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover
01.05.12 - Researchers plan to keep NASA's Opportunity rover busy through Martian winter at a sun-facing site, "Greeley Haven," where a study of the planet's core has begun.
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NASA Presents Software of the Year Award
12.08.11 - Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS), novel autonomy software that has been operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity since December 2009, is NASA's 2011 Software of the Year recipient.
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NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water
12.07.11 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water.
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Video Documents Three-Year Trek on Mars by NASA Rover
10.10.11 - A sequence of images, each taken at the end of a Martian day's drive, and a soundtrack from rover accelerometer data make a unique audio-visual record of a trek on Mars.
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NASA Mars Rovers Win Magazine's 'Breakthrough' Award
10.03.11 - NASA Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the team that made and operated them, will receive a lifetime achievement award from Popular Mechanics magazine this month.
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JPL Participates in Space-Themed Corn Maze
09.28.11 - NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is joining forces with Utah's original corn maze, Cornbelly's Corn Maze and Pumpkin Fest, for a kickoff celebration on Sept. 30 and Oct. 1.
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NASA Rover Inspects Next Rock at Endeavour
09.14.11 - The second rock that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is examining in its new neighborhood offers a taste of bedrock.
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Memorial Image Taken on Mars on September 11, 2011
09.12.11 - A view of a memorial to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the World Trade Center towers was taken on Mars yesterday, on the 10th anniversary of the attacks.
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Tributes to Terrorism Victims are on Mars
09.08.11 - Two interplanetary memorials to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks reside on Mars in tools from New York used by NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
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NASA's Opportunity Rover Begins Study of Martian Crater
09.01.11 - The initial work of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity at its new location on Mars shows surface compositional differences from anything the robot has studied in its first 7.5 years of exploration.
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NASA Announces Media Telecon About Opportunity Rover
08.30.11 - NASA will host a media teleconference on Thursday, Sept. 1, at 12:30 p.m. PDT (3:30 p.m. EDT) to discuss progress of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.
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New Rover Snapshots Capture Endeavour Crater Vistas
08.19.11 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured eye-catching images of Martian terrain from its new perch at Endeavour Crater.
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Mars Rover Arrives at New Site on Martian Surface
08.10.11 - After a journey of almost three years, Opportunity reached the Red Planet’s Endeavour Crater to study rocks never seen before.
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NASA Mars Rover Approaches Long-Term Goal
08.08.11 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity may reach the rim of Endeavour crater in coming days.
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NASA's Opportunity Tops 20 Miles of Mars Driving
07.19.11 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity completed a drive on July 17 that took the vehicle's total driving distance on Mars past 20 miles.
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Opportunity Heads Toward 'Spirit Point'
06.08.11 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is driving toward a destination informally named "Spirit Point" in honor of the rover's twin.
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Opportunity Passes Small Crater and Big Milestone
06.02.11 - After a recent encounter with a young crater, NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity surpassed 30 kilometers (18.64 miles) in total driving yesterday (June 1).