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Mars Rover Magazine

A wikizine following breaking news and images from the Mars Rover mission. The Rover has lasted much longer than anyone anticipated with minimal energy reserves. Get the latest from NASA and contribute stories.

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The Mars rover Spirit is slowly being moved by the NASA team to a new location on Mars, where it will have the best chance of surviving its third Martian winter since its original landing on Mars for both Spirit and Opportunity’s projected ninety-day mission in January of 2004. Now Spirit is celebrating its 4th anniversary on Mars. The discovery of silica-rich deposits uncovered in May was reported by Cornell’s Steve Squyres and colleagues at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union in early December in San Francisco. Squyers, principal investigator for NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover mission, calls it “one of the most ... Read Full Story
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“These odds are extremely unusual. We frequently work with really long odds when we track … threatening asteroids,” said Steve Chesley, an astronomer with the Near Earth Object Program at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We’re used to dealing with odds like one-in-a-million. Something with a one-in-a-hundred chance makes us sit up straight in our chairs.”   On January 30, 2008, there will be a one in 75 chance of a newly discovered asteroid, the Asteroid 2007 WD5, impacting Mars in the area where the twin rover Opportunity has been exploring since 2004. Currently located between Earth and Mars, was formerly given the odds of ... Read Full Story
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Scientists at NASA are preparing to have the Opportunity Rover climb 40 feet down to a band of rocks in the Victoria Crater on Mars. First of all, it is amazing that the Opportunity is still functioning properly after so much time. No one expected Opportunity to remain in operation for this many months. It has survived a few serious dust storms, and it just keeps on cruising around and transmitting data. Awesome. Scientists believe that the target rocks represent the ancient surface of Mars and hope that studying them could shed clues on the planet's early climate. On Tuesday morning, engineers sent commands ... Read Full Story
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Wandering Spirit The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter spotted fellow Martian explorer, the Mars Exploration Rover "Spirit," inside the feature dubbed "Home Plate" in Gusev Crater.   The intrepid, long-lived rover shows up as a tiny black speck at about the 5:30 position of the lighter-colored, roughly circular central feature of this image, taken on Sept. 27, 2007.   Spirit is driving toward what is hoped will be a safe winter home on the north-facing slopes on the north side of Home Plate, toward the top of the image. There it will tilt its solar panels toward ... Read Full Story
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EUROPA NEWSWIRE. Photo by: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell University . PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. The rock, dubbed "Block Island," is larger than any other known meteorite on Mars. Scientists calculate it is too massive to have hit the ground without disintegrating unless Mars had a much thicker atmosphere than it has now when the rock fell. An atmosphere slows the descent of meteorites. Additional studies also may provide clues about how weathering has affected the rock since it fell. Two weeks ... Read Full Story
 
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The Mars rover Spirit made its first small step out of the rut it's been mired in for the past six months. The second time was a charm for the Mars Exploration Rover mission, which began sending signals to Spirit in the wee hours of Tuesday morning after months of perfecting an escape plan for the rover, which has its wheels covered up to its hubcaps in a powdery soil.  
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NASA will make a second attempt to move stuck Spirit Mars rover.  
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(By Kenneth Chang, New York Times) The NASA rover Spirit, stuck in sand on Mars, tried to move Tuesday for the first time since May. In less than a second, it stopped.Cautious mission managers had put tight constraints on the Spirit's movement to ensure that it did not drive itself into a deeper predicament. When its sideward tilt changed by more than a degree, the rover called it a day. Spirit awaits new instructions.  
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The Mars Exploration Rover was designed to be stowed in the nose of a Delta II rocket. Each spacecraft consists of several components:

  • Rover: 185 kg (408 lb)
  • Lander: 348 kg (767 lb)
  • Backshell / Parachute: 209 kg (461 lb)
  • Heat Shield: 78 kg (172 lb)
  • Cruise Stage: 193 kg (425 lb)
  • Propellant: 50 kg (110 lb)

Total mass is 1,063 kg (2,343 lb).

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