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Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home
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Mars rover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Mars rover is an automated motor vehicle which propels itself across the surface of the planet Mars after landing. Rovers have several advantages over stationary ...

Mars Exploration Rover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Lunokhod programme (Lunar rovers) Mars Science Laboratory (Next planned NASA Mars rover) Composition of Mars; Aeolis quadrangle; Glossary

Mars Rover Finds New Evidence of Water
Laurel MA (SPX) Jan 26, 2012 - NASA's Mars rover Opportunity discovered a mineral vein telling of a warmer, wetter and potentially more conducive to life past for the ...

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Overview - NASA - Home
NASA's twin robot geologists, the Mars Exploration Rovers, launched toward Mars on June 10 and July 7, 2003, in search of answers about the history of ...

NASA - Mars Exploration Rovers
'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover. Researchers plan to keep NASA's Opportunity rover busy through Martian winter at a sun-facing site, "Greeley Haven ...

NASA Launches Super-Size Mars Rover To Red Planet | Fox News
Air & Space - SCITECH NASA Launches Super-Size Mars Rover to Red Planet. Published November 26, 2011 | Associated Press

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Multimedia: All Raw Images
Raw Images For Spirit and Opportunity: Spirit Raw Images: View all Spirit raw images: Opportunity Raw Images ... + Freedom of Information Act + The President's ...

Space.com - Mars Rover Special Report
Collection of articles about Spirit and Opportunity published by space.com.

Space Pictures This Week: Mars Rover, Galaxy Smashup, More
Galaxies "punctuate" the cosmos, the sun shoots a huge flare, a Mars rover reaches its target, and more in the week's best space pictures.

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PhysOrg.com

Mars-bound NASA rover carries coin for camera checkup
PhysOrg.com
NASA's Mars rover Curiosity with an inset showing calibration targets to be used by a camera at the end of the robotic arm. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech (PhysOrg.com) -- The camera at the end of the robotic arm on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has its ...
Astronomers: Mars likely too dry for lifeThe State Column
WU professor joins Mars rover project to study soilStudent Life
Astrobiology: NASA rover directed on Mars could bring with it a real "Alien ...AVIONEWS
Scientific American (blog) -Universe Today
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RedOrbit

Spacemen urge NASA to build nuke ship for Mars trip
Register
As the report reminds us, a development effort by the name of Project Rover was begun way back in 1951, and tested over 20 reactors and engines with thrust levels of between 7500 and 25000 pounds, before culminating in the Nuclear Engine for Rocket ...
Fission power back on NASA's agendaNature.com
NASA Jumping Out Of Joint ESA Mars MissionRedOrbit
Europe and Russia Plan Trips to Mars—But Maybe Without NASAScience AAAS
National Post (blog) -Openglobe -Discovery News
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Sci-Tech Today

Nasa Mars rover mission lines up on target
BBC News
By Jonathan Amos Science correspondent, BBC News Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory (MSL), currently en route to the Red Planet, has had its course corrected to put it on target for an August landing. The 900kg rover is flying through space at 4.5km/s ...
Mars rover Curiosity adjusts courseNews24
NASA Mars rover headed for August arrival at planetChicago Sun-Times
Huge NASA Rover Adjusts Course on Trip to MarsSpace.com
Sci-Tech Today
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Sci-Tech Today

Unstoppable Mars Rover Still Going Strong
Sci-Tech Today
By Gabriele Chwallek The Mars rover Opportunity is living up to is name, taking every opportunity to learn about the Red Planet. When the wheeled robot and its twin, Spirit, first landed on the Red planet in January 2004, they were expected to operate ...
8 Years on Mars: 'Amazing' NASA Rover Still Going StrongSpace.com
Happy Birthday Opportunity! The Mars Rover Turns EightTIME
Unstoppable Mars rover going strong after eight yearsMonsters and Critics.com
msnbc.com -Register -Clarksville Online
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NASA

Mars Rover facing Sun radiation following solar flare
Northern Voices Online
Mars Rover facing Sun radiation following solar flare. Solar flares have been causing much disruption in communication and night-time repose with the brilliant Northern Lights, but now the effects are building up in gravity with the Mars Rover now ...
Mars-Bound NASA Rover Detects Radiation from Huge Solar StormSpace.com
NASA's Mars rover feels wrath of massive solar stormTruthDive
Massive solar storms hit NASA's Mars roverThe State Column
Discovery News -NASA -ElectroIQ
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Bangstyle

NASA Mars Rover Opportunity Still At Work After Eight Years
Huffington Post
The NASA Mars rover Opportunity is ailing but still functional after eight years on the red planet's surface. That's a very long time in rover years. Most of Opportunity's missions have involved looking for water on Mars.
Mars rover still going strongNews24
Video: Eight Years After Martian Touchdown, Opportunity Rover Soldiers OnPopular Science
“Opportunity on Mars – 8 years and counting!”Slugger O'Toole
Wired.co.uk -Bangstyle
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OSU researcher joins team to run Mars rover
Corvallis Gazette Times
Oregon State University's Martin Fisk recently was selected to join a team that will use a remote-controlled rover to explore Mars over a two-year period. The rover will be used to study an area on Mars to determine if it's able to harbor life.
OSU scientist joins hunt for life on MarsAlbany Democrat Herald

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French Tribune

NASA's Mars Rover Struck by Enormous Solar Storms
French Tribune
As per recent reports, it has been revealed that the latest mission launched by NASA to Mars has gone through a welcome astonishment this week. NASA officials have revealed that the spacecraft has gained great support from an extremely colossal solar ...

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Mars Rover Science Investigations Continue as Solar Energy Levels Drop
Space Daily
by Staff Writers Opportunity is positioned on the north end of Cape York on the rim of Endeavour Crater with an approximate 15-degree northerly tilt for favorable solar energy production during the winter. Opportunity is conducting regular radio ...

Popular Science

Mars rover Curiosity successfully adjusted trajectory
EarthSky
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, carrying the Mars rover Curiosity, successfully completed its first and most dramatic trajectory adjustment this week (January 11, 2012) while en route to Mars. The first planned trajectory adjustment was deemed ...
New App Downlinks Mars Rover Images Straight to Your SmartphonePopular Science
A Street View for Mars: App Showcases Rover Snaps from Red Planet [PICS]Mashable
Get The Mars Rover On Your PhoneGizmodo Australia
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