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Team Plans Uplink of Protective Files
The team operating NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter plans to uplink protective files to the spacecraft next week as one step toward resuming the orbiter's research and relay activities.
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Team Sets Plan for Third Extrication Drive
Another drive is planned for Spirit on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21).
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Second Extrication Drive Yields Slight Progress
Spirit successfully completed the first step of its planned two-step motion on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19).
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Second Planned Extrication Drive is Straight Ahead Again
The plan for an extrication drive on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19) will essentially be a repeat of the first drive plan, but with improved rover attitude knowledge.
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NASA and Microsoft Allow Earthlings to Become Martians
NASA and Microsoft Corp. of Redmond, Wash., have collaborated to create a Web site where Internet users can have fun while advancing their knowledge of Mars.
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Tilt Parameters End First Extrication Drive
The preliminary results from the first extrication drive for Spirit on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17, 2009) indicate the rover stopped less than 1 second after it began, sensing more vehicle lateral tilt than permitted.
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Team Prepares to Uplink Commands to Spirit
Driving commands are being prepared to instruct Spirit to attempt to drive forward. These are the first driving commands since Spirit became embedded in a Martian sandtrap approximately six months ago.
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Distal Rampart of Crater in Chryse Planitia
Impact craters on Mars are kind of neat. Many of them look very different than impact craters seen on Earth's moon or Mercury.
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Sandbox Testing to Prepare for Driving Spirit
Rover-team members at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, check slight movements by a test rover during tests simulating the challenge of getting Spirit out of a sand trap on Mars.
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A Tale of Planetary Woe
Long ago, something calamitous happened to Mars, transforming a warm and hospitable world into the frigid, seemingly lifeless desert we see today.
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Take Me Out to the Ballpark - On Mars!
Students in fourth through seventh grade will work to create the ultimate baseball experience "on Mars," even designing the rules for how to play a game on the Red Planet.
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Frost-Covered Phoenix Lander Seen in Winter Images
Images of NASA's Phoenix Lander from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the lander shrouded in dry-ice frost on Mars.
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Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit
Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year. >>
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A Mars Rover Named "Curiosity"
NASA's next Mars rover, a super-capable robot named "Curiosity," will push Mars exploration to a new level.
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Channels from Hale Crater
This image from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows channels to the southeast of Hale crater on southern Mars.
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Team Runs Operational Test to Prepare for Extracting Spirit
Engineers using test rovers on Earth to prepare for extracting the sand-trapped Spirit rover on Mars have added a new challenge to their preparations. >>
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New Set of High-Resolution Mars Images Online
Thousands of image products from 233 recent telescopic observations by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show a diversity of surface shapes and textures on Mars.
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