NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover ; NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.
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Mars rover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A Mars rover is a spacecraft which propels itself across the surface of Mars after landing. Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers: they examine more territory, they can be directed ...
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Video - Mars Rover Team Ponders Mission's End ... The success of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity in finding tell-tale signs of past water at its Meridiani Planum landing site has left some researchers believing the region could have once been a habitable, albeit hostile, environment.
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Mars Exploration Rover - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover ( MER ) Mission is an ongoing robotic mission of exploring Mars, that began in 2003 with the sending of two rovers — MER-A Spirit and MER-B Opportunity — to exp...
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NASA.gov brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America’s space agency. ... This view from the navigation camera near the top of the mast on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the tracks left by the rover as it drove southward and backward, dragging its inoperable ...
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The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet. ... Moving from place to place, the rovers perform on-site geological investigations. Each rover is sort of the mechanical equivalent of a geologist walking the surface of Mars.
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This blink comparison aids evaluation of a drive by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit during the rover's 2,099th Martian day, or sol (Nov. 28, 2009). ... NASA's long-running Mars rover Spirit will begin critical drives for escaping a sand trap.
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