Mars Rover Opportunity Faces New Threat: Budget Ax, Discovery “NASA’s baseline budget for the year beginning Oct. 1 pulls the plug on the 10-year-old Mars rover Opportunity, newly released details of the agency’s fiscal 2015 spending plan show. The plan, which requires Congressional approval, also anticipates ending the orbiting Mars Odyssey mission on Sept. 30, 2016. “There are pressures all over the place,” NASA’s planetary science division director Jim Green […]

Keith’s note: At bottom of this release “Mars Rover Teams Dub Sites in Memory of Bruce Murray“, JPL has included “For more information about Opportunity, visit http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl , http://www.nasa.gov/rovers and http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov . For more information about Curiosity, visit http://www.nasa.gov/msl and http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/msl“ . Two missions – five websites. First for the Opportunity links. if you go to http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/ you do not get anything on Opportunity but rather its a Curiosity page. […]

NASA to Host June 7 Mars Rover Opportunity Teleconference, NASA NASA will hold a media teleconference at 9 a.m. PDT (noon EDT) on Friday, June 7, to provide an update about the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity. The 10th anniversary of this rover’s launch is next month. The briefing participants will be: — John Callas, project manager for Opportunity, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif. — Steve Squyres, principal investigator […]

NASA’s Curiosity Rover Checks-In on Mars Using Foursquare “NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover checked in on Mars Wednesday using the mobile application Foursquare. This marks the first check-in on another planet. Users on Foursquare can keep up with Curiosity as the rover checks in at key locations and posts photos and tips, all while exploring the Red Planet. “NASA is using Foursquare as a tool to share the rover’s new locations […]

Mars Rover Opportunity Update: September 01-07, 2011 “Photo taken by Mars Rover Opportunity of itself on 11 Sep 2011 showing piece of metal taken from the Twin Towers – with an American flag on it – after 7 years on Mars. NOTE: Work Continues on Crater Rim – sols 2703-2709, September 01-07, 2011: Opportunity is moving to other in-situ (contact) targets of interest around the region, called Cape York on […]