Bizarre. @doug_ellison complains about #Mars Opportunity false alarm because people went to a @NASA_JPL website he helped develop that showed Opportunity sending a signal to Earth. So Doug, maybe we […]
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After 5,000 Days On Mars Opportunity Still Does Science
New Day for Longest-Working Mars Rover “NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the dawn of the rover’s 4,999th Martian day, or sol, with its Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on Feb. 15, […]
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One Mars Robot Watches For Another At Wharton Ridge
Looking for Schiaparelli At Wharton Ridge “On Wednesday 19 October the ExoMars Schiaparelli module will land on Mars at 10:48 am EDT. There is a chance that Opportunity may see […]
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JWST's Latest Victim: Shutting Down Opportunity
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 […]
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Remember the MER Rover Opportunity?
CuriousMars: Opportunity Hunts for Clay Minerals on Matijevic Hill, A.J.S. Rayl and Craig Covault, SpaceRef “The Mars rover Curiosity has been commanding headlines with its every move from its historic, […]
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Twin Towers on Mars
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 […]
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Why Can't Everyone Get A Chance To Name Things on Mars?
Images: Opportunity Arrives At Endeavour Crater “Opportunity had arrived at the western rim of 13-mile-diameter (21-kilometer-diameter) Endeavour crater four days earlier. A portion of the northeastern rim of Endeavour forms […]
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Opportunity Mars Rover As Seen From Orbit – Today
Photo: Opportunity Mars Rover As Seen From Orbit – Today “The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter acquired this color image on March 9, […]
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Opportunity As Seen From Mars Orbit
Photo: Opportunity Rover at Santa Maria Crater As Seen From Mars Orbit “HiRISE acquired this image of the Opportunity rover on the Southwest rim of Santa Maria Crater on New […]
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Movies From Mars
Movies: A Martian Sunset and a Solar Transit by Phobos “A new Mars movie clip gives us a rover’s-eye view of a bluish Martian sunset, while another clip shows the […]