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JPL Employee Complains When People Believe A Website They Developed

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 shouldn't trust what @NASA JPL websites like https://t.co/oYsm5UOmKg say – right? pic.twitter.com/bCMH6LJ58x — NASA Watch (@NASAWatch) November 16, 2018 Keith’s note: NASA has some pretty amazing websites. Some of the best ones are made by JPL. They are immensely popular. […]

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  • November 16, 2018
After 5,000 Days On Mars Opportunity Still Does Science
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, 2018, yielding this processed, approximately true-color scene.” 5,000 Days on Mars For Mars Rover Opportunity “The Sun will rise on NASA’s solar-powered Mars rover Opportunity for the 5,000th time on Saturday, sending rays of energy to a golf-cart-size robotic field […]

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  • February 16, 2018
One Mars Robot Watches For Another At Wharton Ridge
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 it on the horizon as it descends. The name of this location on the rim of Endeavour crater was initially announced a week or so ago. “Wharton Ridge” is named after Robert A. Wharton.” Taking In The View From Wharton […]

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  • October 18, 2016
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 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 […]

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  • March 13, 2014
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, breathtaking landing last August to its first major discovery of an ancient stream bed formed by fast flowing water. In recent week’s rumors, speculation, and wild conspiracy theories about what Curiosity has found have demonstrated, if nothing else, just how […]

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  • December 13, 2012
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 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 […]

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  • September 12, 2011
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 the distant horizon in this view. A crater about 66 feet (20 meters) in diameter is on the Endeavour rim near Opportunity’s arrival point. From a position south of Odyssey, this view is dominated by a rock informally named “Ridout” […]

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  • August 21, 2011
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, 2011, of “Santa Maria” crater, showing NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity perched on the southeast rim. The rover is the bluish speck at about the four o’clock position on the crater rim (with indicator arrow). North is up. Rover tracks […]

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  • March 9, 2011
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 Year’s Eve 2010, or Sol 2466 of the rover’s surface mission. Opportunity is imaging the crater interior to better understand the geometry of rock layers as a means of defining the stratigraphy and the impact process. Santa Maria is a […]

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  • January 4, 2011
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 silhouette of the moon Phobos passing in front of the sun. America’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, carefully guided by researchers with an artistic sense, has recorded images used in the simulated movies.”

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  • December 23, 2010