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NASA Loves Mars Phoenix Lander More Than Spirit, Opportunity Rovers
Pheonix LanderNASA/JPLThe spoiled youngest child of the Mars rosterWhen NASA's Phoenix lander parachutes from orbit and touches down on the outskirts of Mars' northern polar ice cap on May 25, it will...
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Mars Rovers Nearly Killed by Budget Cuts
Rover viewNASA/JPLIt would have been pretty heartbreaking for space fans if Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Martian rovers, had survived on the Red Planet all these years, only to be shut down and...
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Congratulations, Spirit! Rover Is Now the Longest-Running Mission to the Red...
Spirit, via artist's renderingA stuck robotic rover may have overtaken NASA's Viking probe as the longest-surviving mission on Mars -- so long as it's still alive. But its robotic twin Opportunity...
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Live Video: Watch NASA's Newest Mars Rover Being Built, Piece by Piece
Curiosity Being BuiltNASAThe view isn't quite this good -- as evidenced by the webcam's location -- but still, it's not every day you get to watch spacecraft being born.Okay, so it's not as warm and...
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Today On Mars: Opportunity Begins Its 10th Year Of Mars Roving
Opportunity: A Simulated Self-PortraitNASAToday on Mars the robotic rover Opportunity (that's right, Opportunity--remember when we all used to care about Opportunity?) is hitting a major milestone. The...
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Has Been Exploring Mars For 10 Years
Space Happy anniversary! What do you get for an orbiter that has everything?
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The Best Images Of Mars (So Far)
Space A preview of our next home? With SpaceX declaring that they will land a Dragon capsule on Mars in 2018, Martian colonies are seeming more and more like a reality with every passing day.
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Today On Mars: Opportunity Begins Its 10th Year Of Mars Roving
Technology Curiosity may get all the kudos these days, but the wizened Opportunity rover continues to log miles on the Martian surface. Today on Mars the robotic rover Opportunity (that's right,...
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Has Been Exploring Mars For 10 Years
Space Happy anniversary! What do you get for an orbiter that has everything?
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The Best Pictures Of Mars
Space Some of the coolest views that people can see on Mars when we finally get there. With SpaceX declaring that they will land a Dragon capsule on Mars in 2018, Martian colonies are seeming more and...
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The Little Rover That Could
Space We think you can, Opportunity. On Saturday, February 17, Opportunity will experience its 5,000th Martian sunrise.
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Weather got you down? The entire planet of Mars is buried in a dust storm...
Space But that's not too weird for the red planet. Mars is no stranger to dust storms, but this one isn’t a run-of-the-mill tempest. It’s far more gargantuan. In fact, it's happening worldwide.
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Mars' skies are clearing up, but the Opportunity rover is still fast asleep
Space Hang in there, sleeping beauty. While the Sun is no longer just a pinprick in the Martian sky, and astronomers peering through telescopes on Earth can once again see surface features on our...
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Why NASA needs to flip Curiosity’s ‘brain’ over
Space It's having memory issues. The past few months have been pretty rough on NASA’s Mars rovers. Opportunity is still not responding to NASA’s frequent missives.
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RIP Opportunity: A eulogy for the beloved Mars rover
Space The little rover that could. Today we mourn the loss of a friend so stalwart we nearly forgot we wouldn’t have them forever.
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NASA officially ends the Opportunity rover’s 15-year mission
Space The longest-running surface mission laid the groundwork for some big things ahead. The space agency is holding a press conference on the rover's status at 2 p.m. Eastern on Wednesday.
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The sad reason part of the Mars Rover's last image is black and white
Space The rover took the shot, but never had the chance to send it back to earth. The Mars Opportunity rover sent back one last panoramic image.
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