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Rover Will Spend 7th Birthday at Stadium-Size Crater
01.04.11 - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has photographed the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity beside a crater where the rover will spend the seventh anniversary of its landing.
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Opportunity Studying a Football-Field Size Crater
12.23.10 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity will spend a few weeks investigating a football-field-size crater informally named "Santa Maria."
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Mars Movie - I'm Dreaming of a Blue Sunset
12.22.10 - One Mars movie gives a rover's-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset; another shows the silhouette of Phobos passing in front of the sun.
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NASA Spacecraft Provides Travel Tips for Mars Rover
12.16.10 - NASA's Mars Opportunity rover is getting important tips from an orbiting spacecraft as it explores areas that might hold clues about past Martian environments.
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NASA Mars Rover Images Honor Apollo 12
11.18.10 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has visited and photographed two craters informally named for the spacecraft that carried men to the moon 41 years ago this week.
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Mars Rovers Mission Using Cloud Computing
11.02.10 - The project team that built and operates the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity has become the first NASA space mission to use cloud computing for daily mission operations.
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Trapped Mars Rover Finds Subsurface Water Evidence
10.28.10 - The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing basis.
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Mars Rover Opportunity Approaching Possible Meteorite
09.21.10 - A dark rock about the size of a toaster oven is visible in images NASA's Mars rover Opportunity took on Sept. 16. It may be a meteorite. The rover is going for a closer look.
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Opportunity Rover Reaches Halfway Point of Long Trek
09.08.10 - During a long drive on Labor Day, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity reached the estimated halfway point of its journey from Victoria Crater to Endeavour Crater.
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NASA's Hibernating Mars Rover May Not Call Home
07.30.10 - NASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet - trying to survive the harsh Martian winter.
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Martian Dust Devil Whirls into Opportunity's View
07.28.10 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has photographed its first dust devil, a challenging feat in the area where Opportunity is working.
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NASA Mars Rover Seeing Destination in More Detail
06.29.10 - A super-resolution view toward Endeavour Crater from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows discernible features in the rim of that long-term destination.
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NASA Rover Finds Clue to Mars' Past
06.03.10 - Rocks examined by NASA's Spirit Mars Rover hold evidence of a wet, non-acidic ancient environment that may have been favorable for life.
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NASA's Mars Rovers Set Surface Longevity Record
05.19.10 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Project passes a historic Martian longevity record on Thursday, May 20.
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Mars Image Takes Earth Photo Event to a New World
05.12.10 - When some Mars explorers learned of plans for a worldwide photography event combining shots taken from thousands of different locations on May 2, 2010, they figured, "Why just one world?"
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Mars Rover Sees Distant Crater Rims on Horizon
04.30.10 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has captured a new view of the rim of Endeavour crater, the rover's destination in a multi-year traverse along the sandy Martian landscape.
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Spirit May Have Begun Months-Long Hibernation
03.31.10 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit skipped a planned communication session on March 30 and, as anticipated from recent power-supply projections, has probably entered a low-power hibernation mode.
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Space Operations Award Going to Mars Rover Team
03.25.10 - The team that operates NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity will receive the 2010 International Space Ops Award for Outstanding Achievement.
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Opportunity Surpasses 20 Kilometers of Total Driving
03.24.10 - NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity today surpassed 20 kilometers (12.43 miles) of total driving since it landed on Mars 74 months ago.
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Mars Rover Examines Odd Material at Small, Young Crater
03.24.10 - Weird coatings on rocks beside a young Martian crater remain puzzling after a preliminary look at data from examination of the site by NASA's Opportunity rover.