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Experts operating the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) announce that the orbiter was recently able to observe two defunct Martian missions from its orbital perch. The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and the Phoenix Mars Lander completed both of their missions successfully.
Spirit, or MER-A, has been inactive since 20... |
10 February 2012
02:35 GMT |
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Yesterday, January 3, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit turned 8 since arriving on the surface of Mars. The spacecraft landed there on January 3, 2004, followed several days later by its sister rover, Opportunity. The latter arrived on January 25.
The two were supposed to operate for about three months, and d... |
4 January 2012
03:53 GMT |
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An amazing video posted on YouTube yesterday, November 14, shows the entire journey of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit on the surface of Mars. The time-lapse clip covers everything from the moment the robot was deployed to when it became embedded in loose sand and had to be abandoned.
Spirit spent more than ... |
15 November 2011
03:25 GMT |
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The NASA Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) Spirit and Opportunity will receive a lifetime achievement award on October 10, during a ceremony to be held in New York City. The fact that the mission will receive this Breakthrough Award was announced on October 3 by Popular Mechanics magazine.
Originally, the two machines... |
4 October 2011
03:08 GMT |
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The Martian rover Opportunity is currently heading towards the rim of Endeavour Crater, a large landscape feature on the surface of Mars. Experts at NASA have decided to name the spot where the exploration rover is scheduled to stop Spirit Point, in honor of Opportunity's lost twin.Spirit ceased all communicatio... |
9 June 2011
08:05 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency have just released the last-ever panoramic image snapped by the now-defunct rover Spirit on the surface of the Red Planet. The image shows the location of the exploration rover at the Gusev Crater, where it got stuck in sand back in 2009. The numerous rocks and slopes that appea... |
30 May 2011
09:52 GMT |
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After nearly seven years of roaming the surface of the Red Planet, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit has finally been declared dead by mission controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California. Operational planning activities for the exploration robot have concluded at NASA, and a... |
26 May 2011
16:01 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency are sad to announce that they plan to stop trying to actively establish communications with the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit. The robot has been stuck in a sandy trap for about two years, and is unresponsive to any radio signals directed at it.
Yesterday, May 24, NASA o... |
25 May 2011
01:22 GMT |
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Officials at NASA announce that their Martian rover Spirit has now been silent for a full year. At this point, chances of it recovering are dropping every day that passes by, experts say. The Martian spring is already in full swing at its location, and the explorer should have woken up by now. Over the past few month... |
29 March 2011
09:49 GMT |
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Scientists with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, say that hopes of getting the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit back online are starting to dwindle. The Martian spring is in full swing, and yet no radio signals have been heard from the machine.An important threshold was reached last week... |
19 March 2011
07:12 GMT |
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NASA released two updates about that state of the two components of the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission, Spirit and Opportunity. While the former is still keeping mum near Home Plate, the latter has just wrapped up investigations of a rock at its current location.Opportunity is now on the rim of the Santa Maria... |
18 March 2011
11:53 GMT |
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FaceTime is, without a doubt, one of the most exciting features of Apple's iPhone 4, but the company from Cupertino is quite obviously not the only one capable of delivering such a feature, as an outfit called Spirit plans to prove at MWC 2011.So, the respective company has just announced the fact that, at the t... |
8 February 2011
08:42 GMT |
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It's now or never for NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit, say mission managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California. The Martian spring is in full swing, and, if the robot is ever to recover, now should be the time. The last communications NASA had with Spirit were on Ma... |
10 January 2011
03:43 GMT |
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The two exploration robots that make up the NASA Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission have started the eight year of their stay on the Red Planet today, January 4. While Spirit turns 7 today, its twin Opportunity will reach the mission milestone on January 25. The former rover has been in a state called a safe mode ... |
4 January 2011
09:55 GMT |
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When the two components of the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission touched down on the surface of the Red Planet all those years ago, no one expected the two robots to last this long in the harsh conditions of their new homes. Yet, they did, and have been going so for nearly 7 years. Spirit will turn 7 tomorrow, Ja... |
3 January 2011
04:13 GMT |
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The team of experts managing the twin Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity announce that the MER mission has become the first at NASA to use cloud computing for planning out daily mission operations.Both rovers will have more flexibility in their mission thanks to on-demand access to cloud computing. Cost will also ... |
3 November 2010
05:27 GMT |
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According to new data collected by Spirit, it would appear that water flowed on Mars more recently than thought, perhaps even in the last hundred millennia or so. The battered rover, which was this year designated as a stationary science station on the Red Planet, found evidence of underground water at the locations ... |
29 October 2010
02:20 GMT |
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NASA's resilient rover Opportunity has recently discovered a rock that could very well be another meteorite on the surface of Mars. Mission controllers are now deciding whether to investigate it. If the discovery is confirmed, then this would be the rover's fifth meteorite. The explorations robot, which has... |
22 September 2010
02:53 GMT |
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Experts at a NASA lab say that the rover Opportunity has just reached an impressive milestone on the Red Planet. It reached the halfway point of its new mission, which is to reach Endeavor Crater.It's currently unknown whether the robot will ever get to that landscape feature, given the fact that it is located m... |
9 September 2010
04:12 GMT |
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Scientists at the NASA lab managing the rovers Spirit and Opportunity announce that the former has not yet shown any signs of activity. The exploration robot is stuck in a patch of loose sand on Mars. The new status report covers sols (Martian days) 2362 to 2368 of the mission the battered machine has been condu... |
7 September 2010
04:40 GMT |
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Researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have just released the latest report on Spirit's condition on Mars. According to the scientists, who manage the mission for the space agency's Science Mission Directorate, in Washington, DC, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) co... |
30 July 2010
09:09 GMT |
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The author of the Spirit jailbreak for iOS devices has successfully ported the Android version of Flash over to the iPad, demonstrating that Apple’s tablet is well capable of handling such content, although it remains to be seen whether battery life is, indeed, affected as much as Apple claimed.The Android ... |
5 July 2010
09:54 GMT |
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Scientists at the Arizona State University (ASU) are proud to announce that one of their instruments was able to detect a very special type of rock on the Red Planet. The Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer, or Mini-TES, instrument has been developed at the ASU Mars Space Flight Facility, and it equips both Spiri... |
4 June 2010
02:47 GMT |
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Scientists at NASA announce that today will be a momentous occasion for the team of investigators managing the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) program. On May 20, Opportunity will exceed the surface longevity record that the Viking 1 Lander set a long time, after having spent more than 6 years and 116 days on the Red Pl... |
20 May 2010
02:41 GMT |
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Various tutorials, including YouTube videos, thoroughly explain the process of jailbreaking new Apple devices with MuscleNerd’s Spirit application, a hack tool released just days ago. Jailbreakers are advised to carefully back up their data, as well as their SHSH files for future hacks, as revealed in a TechTec... |
4 May 2010
05:50 GMT |
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Spirit is a new jailbreak tool from the iPhone Dev Team’s MuscleNerd. It can hack the latest iPhones and iPod touches running firmware 3.1.2 and 3.1.3, as well as the recently released iPad, which runs a scaled-up version of the iPhone OS (version 3.2). According to various posts on the web, jailbreaking with ... |
3 May 2010
05:51 GMT |
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Developed by @comex, Spirit is an untethered jailbreak for the newest iPhone and iPod touch models, as well as for the iPad. It jailbreaks the latest firmwares, but cannot unlock a device. Users also need an already activated device to use Spirit. Softpedia does not encourage jailbreaking. “Spirit freed,&rdquo... |
3 May 2010
03:36 GMT |
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According to officials at the American space agency, the Martian Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit may have today become the most enduring mission on Mars ever. Yesterday, the machine reached the 6 years and 116 days mark of the Viking-1 lander, which was thus far considered to be the longest-running mission on the Red ... |
30 April 2010
09:51 GMT |
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Jailbreakers have been advised by George Hotz (geohot) to “keep an eye on Spirit.” The iPhone Dev Team has followed with a post offering a similar piece of advice. It also advises members of the jailbreak community to carefully back up their SHSH blobs for vulnerable firmware versions. Softpedia does not ... |
30 April 2010
05:52 GMT |
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This Thursday will mark a momentous achievement for the Mars Exploration Rovers on the surface of the Red Planet. The rover Spirit will exceed the duration of the Viking-1 lander mission, marking the first time this is done in more than three decades. Though the robot ceased communications with Mission Control on Mar... |
26 April 2010
08:45 GMT |
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The Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit may have begun its month-long, low-power hibernation, researchers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announce. The robot missed a scheduled check-in on March 30, which could mean that its power levels were inadequate to allow for the transmiss... |
1 April 2010
14:01 GMT |
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Officials at the American space agency announce that the Martian rover Spirit is currently being chilled to increasingly lower temperatures, as the winter season on the Red Planet approaches the machine's location. The latest communications attempt with it revealed that the robot is still operational, although i... |
20 March 2010
03:46 GMT |
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The NASA rover Spirit has been recently transformed into a stationary science platform. Experts from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, have over the past months attempted all they could to release the robot, but failed. The machine's predicament is simply too great, and there is currently no way ... |
1 March 2010
06:04 GMT |
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Recently, officials at NASA announced that they would no longer attempt to extract the rover Spirit from Troy, and that they would turn it into a static scientific platform. The robot has been trapped in a loose patch of soil on Mars since April, 2009, and all drives aimed at dislodging it from the area have failed. ... |
12 February 2010
05:41 GMT |
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While most people feel sorry that Spirit was recently declared a stationary science platform, not everyone is complaining. In fact, there are some experts that have been involved in operating the resilient robot on the surface of the Red Planet for the last 65 years who say that now they have a chance to finally cond... |
1 February 2010
09:59 GMT |
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As we were telling you earlier today, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) component Spirit has been immobilized on the surface of the Red Planet, following a series of misfortunes. The exploration robot thus comes at the end of a journey that lasted several tens of times longer than it was originally planned. Since land... |
27 January 2010
09:22 GMT |
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In spite of promising results during the last drive attempts, the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit has now been transformed into a static scientific platform. Experts at NASA announce that they are dropping the rescue effort, which has been ongoing for the past ten months. Last May, the rover got trapped in a patc... |
27 January 2010
02:37 GMT |
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Engineers at NASA announce that they are beginning a new stage of the attempts to extricate Spirit from Troy. According to the team, the exploration robot will start driving backwards again, as this appears to be the only remaining way of getting it out of the patch of loose Martian soil that has been keeping it pris... |
21 January 2010
11:05 GMT |
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Scientists managing the Spirit rover say that the Martian winter is closing in fast, and that considerable progress in extracting the robot from its predicament has yet to be made. It has been stuck inside a patch of loose soil called Troy since late May, 2009, and all of the tests, drive attempts and simulations con... |
14 January 2010
10:38 GMT |
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On June 10, 2003, a Delta II rocket carrying the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover (MER) took off from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It managed to successfully land on the Red Planet on January 4, 2004, at 04:35 Ground UTC, which was roughly six years ago. Its mission was to survey its destination for... |
4 January 2010
01:42 GMT |
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Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory announce that the latest drive by the Martian rover Spirit has ended with little to no conclusive results. This is the first drive to be attempted after a couple of weeks of testings, in which the robot's wheels came under scrutiny. Mission planners are very disappoint... |
23 December 2009
06:43 GMT |
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Two days after the last test drive of Spirit's wheels on Mars, on December 16, experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) announce that they can now confirm the rover's thought-defunct right-front wheel moved on its own. Originally believed to have permanently malfunctioned, it has not been in use ... |
18 December 2009
06:23 GMT |
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One of the biggest problems the rover Spirit had to deal with since two years after it arrived on Mars was the fact that it could no longer use its front-right wheel. The equipment had sustained damage, and this forced the robot to drive backwards for the last three years. In late May, it got stuck in Troy, the patch... |
16 December 2009
09:50 GMT |
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Following a new series of test drives of the Martian rover Spirit, scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), who manage the MER mission, say that the robot's rear right wheel is still jammed, and that the machine is in serious danger of being left with just four operational wheels of its original s... |
11 December 2009
14:01 GMT |
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When the Martian rover Spirit got stuck at its current location, a patch of loose soil called Troy, everyone at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which controls the MER mission, sighed in disappointment. The next six months were spent looking at ways of setting the robot free. When they were finally devised, engine... |
3 December 2009
06:41 GMT |
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During the last set of drive commands uploaded to the Martian rover Spirit, engineers have encountered a problem in one of the rover's wheels, which jammed when the time came to spin. The entire drive attempt was therefore stopped by the robot's onboard computer, so as not to make its situation even worse t... |
26 November 2009
14:01 GMT |
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On Sol 2092 (Saturday, November 21), the Spirit rover received a new set of commands to drive, as experts were trying to move ahead with the plan of extricating it from its trap. The robot drove into a patch of loose soil called Troy in late April, and the powder-like dust did not allow for it to move since. Only rec... |
24 November 2009
09:08 GMT |
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For the first time in more than six months, the rover Spirit took a tiny step towards freeing itself from the grasp of the loose patch of soil known as Troy. The powder-like sand was covered by a thin crust, which gave way as the robot was climbing a 12-degree slope, which led to a formation known as Home Plate. Engi... |
21 November 2009
03:40 GMT |
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Following Tuesday's attempt at moving the jammed rover Spirit, engineers and mission planners at the American space agency's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) have decided to upload a new set of commands into the robot's onboard computer earlier today. The machine has been stuck in a patch of loose soil ... |
19 November 2009
03:24 GMT |
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As most of you know, the rover Spirit has been stuck on the surface of Mars since May 6, when it drove straight into a patch of loose soil known as Troy. All efforts to free the robot resulted at the time in failure, so the scientists took to the lab, in an attempt to discover what the best course of action might be.... |
18 November 2009
02:58 GMT |
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