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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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Stuck on the surface of the Red Planet for more than six month, the rover Spirit was finally going to begin its complex and long-lasting extrication procedure, scientists at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory announced. They said that the first commands to the resilient robot had been sent late last night or would be... |
17 November 2009
02:28 GMT |
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After recently making the rover “stretch” for the first time in six months, experts and engineers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are currently making the last preparations for beginning their attempts at extricating Spirit from its predicament. The robot has been tra... |
13 November 2009
02:14 GMT |
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The battered exploration rover Spirit, which has been stuck in a patch of loose soil on Mars for the better part of the last six months, has recently wiggled its wheels for the first time. The move is the first since the robot became embedded in Troy, and represents the beginning of efforts to extricate the rover, wh... |
11 November 2009
06:03 GMT |
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Since May 6, the rover Spirit has been trapped on the surface of the Red Planet in a patch of loose soil known as Troy. The exploration robot, which has been driving backwards on only five wheels for the last three years, was climbing a 12-degree slope when its wheels got buried in the sand up to their hubcaps. After... |
6 November 2009
05:50 GMT |
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After almost six months of being stuck in a patch of loose soil on the surface of the Red Planet, the rover Spirit has begun experiencing a new bout of amnesia, its controllers at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) say. This behavior was recorded in four different instances this year, and so experts have been t... |
31 October 2009
03:44 GMT |
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Since May 6, the Mars rover Spirit has been trapped in Troy, a patch of loosely bound soil on the surface of the Red Planet. Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, who manage the robot, say that, over the past few months, a number of drive tests has been conducted with two test rov... |
20 October 2009
02:57 GMT |
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Experts at the Technical University of Prague Center for Machine Perception, under the direction of scientist Dr. Michal Havlena, have recently announced the development of a new computer system, capable of reproducing the Red Planet in 3D detail within minutes. The platform can also be fed images collected by explor... |
18 September 2009
17:31 GMT |
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As the months go by, it becomes painfully obvious to all those involved with getting Spirit out of its predicament that it isn't going to be an easy task. Though they knew from day one that it was going to be very difficult to remove the rover from the loose patch of Martian soil called Troy, engineers at NASA&#... |
15 September 2009
02:34 GMT |
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The Martian rover Spirit remains blocked in its sandy patch of soil on the surface of the Red Planet, as an incoming dust storm continues to significantly reduce the amount of electricity the exploration robot is receiving. The average amount of sunlight Spirit was getting has now been blocked and, as a response, mis... |
27 August 2009
01:25 GMT |
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Experts at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have just added a second rover to their experiments designed to figure out a way to get the Martian rover Spirit out of its sand trap on the Red Planet. The team has added a lighter-weight version of the two MER components, and it will begi... |
24 August 2009
04:40 GMT |
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The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are celebrating Spirit's record-setting anniversary of Martian presence. Originally designed to roam the sands of the Red Planet for just 90 sols (a mean Martian day has 24 hours, 39 minutes, and 3... |
19 August 2009
05:57 GMT |
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Engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, announced yesterday that the test rover at the facility would undergo a full week of test trials starting next Monday, as the team attempts to discover the best possible methods of getting Spirit unstuck. The Martian rover is stuck in a patch ... |
14 August 2009
09:49 GMT |
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According to mission managers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the powerful NASA-operated Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) was finally pulled off of the backup computer it was forced to relay on last week. Its main systems exhibited a bizarre error, which sent the spacecraft in safe m... |
12 August 2009
02:36 GMT |
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Engineers from the jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, have recently obtained one of the most peculiar pictures that the rover Spirit ever sent back from the Red Planet. By combining three photographs taken seconds apart from each other, and snapped in different color filters, they obtained the first ... |
5 August 2009
19:01 GMT |
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While shifting through the data beamed back by the rover Opportunity from the surface of the Red Planet, scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, discovered a dark, oddly shaped rock sitting right in the path of the rover. According to preliminary analysis reports, it may be that th... |
4 August 2009
01:38 GMT |
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After having recently tried all possible combinations of basic moves in an attempt to extract the test rover from its sandbox, researchers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, have recently decided to increase their efforts. In a press release, they announced that the robot would begin to ... |
29 July 2009
05:38 GMT |
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In the specially designed sandbox at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, Mars Exploration Rovers engineers are looking at all possible rover movement options, in order to determine the most appropriate sequence of getting Spirit out of Troy. Yesterday, the experts analyzed if modifying the s... |
22 July 2009
16:41 GMT |
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While engineers at NASA's jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are working with the test rover, trying to find solutions on how to get Spirit out of Troy, the exploration rover is stuck on Mars, with nothing to do. Having collected an impressive number of images of its surroundings, the robo... |
20 July 2009
02:23 GMT |
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With the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) component Spirit stuck in Martian soil since May 6th, a team of engineers at the NASA-operated Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, which also doubles as the control crew for the rover and its twin, Opportunity, is currently engaged in a valiant effort to simulate... |
8 July 2009
06:25 GMT |
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According to officials at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, the Martian rovers' twin test brother is finally located in its sandbox at the laboratory, ready to begin its investigations into how to extract Spirit from its sandy trap. Since May 6th, the most battered rover of the MER mi... |
1 July 2009
04:51 GMT |
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With NASA's Spirit rover stuck in loose Martian soil since May 6th, its mission control team at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, is working around the clock to recreate the exact conditions on the Red Planet inside a test sandbox, using an exact replica of the MER rover. Because engineers ... |
27 June 2009
04:12 GMT |
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The Spirit Martian rover is rising up to its name, NASA has announced recently. Despite being stuck up to its hubcaps in loose soil, the robot continues to do relevant science, taking pictures of its surroundings, and also of Troy, the patch of Earth that trapped it on May 6th. While engineers at the Jet Propulsion L... |
26 June 2009
04:22 GMT |
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With Spirit trapped in loose Martian soil since May 6th, engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, California, are working around the clock to mimic the conditions of the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) in their test facilities. Spirit and Opportunity are not the only MER components, as mission pl... |
10 June 2009
13:21 GMT |
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On Wednesday night, the main computer on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) unexpectedly rebooted, under the puzzled faces of mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California. At 9:10 pm EDT (01:10 June 4 GMT), the craft rebooted and entered 'safe mode,' a state that al... |
5 June 2009
16:01 GMT |
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After becoming stuck in the loose Martian soil of the Troy region, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Spirit has recently taken its first pictures of its underside, in a move that has been simulated back on Earth, and with its twin robot Opportunity as well. At this point, researchers have no clue as to how the... |
5 June 2009
03:37 GMT |
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The Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) program began in 2004, with the landing on Mars of the twin robots Spirit and Opportunity. Originally scheduled to roam the surface of the planet for little more than three months, both of them proved to be extremely resilient, and, against all odds, survived the harsh Martian winter... |
27 May 2009
15:41 GMT |
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The Spirit rover is currently in a “sticky” situation, so to speak, having been trapped inside a very soft area of soil on the Red Planet since May 7th. After several attempts to get the robot to move in any direction, Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) mission controllers decided to temporarily halt all drivi... |
19 May 2009
10:29 GMT |
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The resilient tiny Martian rover Spirit is currently facing some of the gravest challenges it has had to bear since arriving on the Red Planet, in 2004. With one wheel jammed since three years ago, it now runs the risk of becoming permanently stuck in the loose and very plastic soil its driving over. Recent attempts ... |
12 May 2009
09:53 GMT |
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On Thursday, the Spirit Mars rover took its first drive since April 8th, when it started exhibiting “memory problems.” Confronted with bouts of amnesia, as in problems with its flash drive, the tiny robot was unresponsive to commands for a while, and rebooted its onboard computers a few times. On April 23... |
25 April 2009
04:40 GMT |
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According to officials at the American space agency, the Spirit robot, part of the Mars Exploration Rovers mission, is currently suffering from what humans would call amnesia. In other words, it fails to “remember” data that have been previously recorded. At the same time, it seems reluctant to provide it... |
21 April 2009
08:10 GMT |
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Officials at NASA have recently announced that the tiny Mars exploration rover (MER) Spirit is in doubtful “health,” on account of the fact that readings coming in from the robot have revealed that the craft has rebooted its onboard computers twice over the last weekend. Engineers and mission specialists ... |
14 April 2009
05:41 GMT |
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Over the past few weeks, Spirit has been making its way to the Goddard and Von Braun features, having departed the “Home Plate” plateau, where it spent the rugged Martian winter. Looking back with its cameras, the robotic probe took snapshots of its own trails, sending back images that took NASA by surpri... |
1 April 2009
10:51 GMT |
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If the Martian rovers could be compared to live scientists, then you could safely say that they are the founding fathers of a new scientific field, and that is robotic planetary exploration. Admittedly, they are not the first machines to have been sent to another planet, and they will most certainly not be the last o... |
31 March 2009
03:21 GMT |
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The resilient Mars rover has managed just recently to get a first glimpse of its destination, the Endeavor crater, towards which the robot has been traveling for more than 6 months. It's panoramic cameras have revealed the uplifted rim of the large crater, still a good distance away from the rover's current... |
19 March 2009
03:44 GMT |
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NASA's enduring Spirit rover is currently faced with a navigational problem, in that its path over a portion of Martian soil known as the Home Plate is obstructed by piles of loose rocks. These formations are very dangerous to the frail machine, so mission managers have decided to take the long way around, simpl... |
6 March 2009
03:42 GMT |
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According to new data released by NASA and JPL-Caltech, the Spirit exploration rover received a larger input of electricity on February 6th, which seems to indicate the fact that Martian winds managed to blew a significant quantity of the dust that covered the robot's solar panels. This is nothing but good news ... |
13 February 2009
15:01 GMT |
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On Saturday, experts at NASA finally resumed breathing, after the Mars rover Spirit eventually snapped out of its mysterious set of problems and started moving on the Martian surface again, following several days of not recording any images and not moving a single inch. NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in ... |
4 February 2009
06:59 GMT |
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Over the last weekend, NASA's “old” Mars rover, Spirit, missed its regular data transmission and remained silent for the next days. This prompted an immediate reaction from the agency's staff, to rescue the long-lived robot, which is now entering its sixth year of service, despite the fact that ... |
29 January 2009
05:55 GMT |
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The endurance displayed by NASA's Mars twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, has been nothing but good news for astronomers and other scientists. Nearly 250,000 images were transmitted between the two planets in their 5 full years of operation. Originally scheduled to last a couple of months, their missions quick... |
16 January 2009
09:25 GMT |
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The twin geologic rovers that were deployed more than 5 years ago on Mars, NASA's Spirit and Opportunity, managed to survive their fifth season on the Red Planet, despite the fact that they were expected to last less than 3 months in the frigid winter that their unfamiliar surroundings offered. Now, having survi... |
5 January 2009
04:31 GMT |
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Mars' hemispheres are very different in weather and even in season, given the positioning of the planet in relation to the Sun. Since its southern part is now facing the Sun, it is spring time for half of Mars, while the other half gets ready for the closing winter. This also has a big impact on science, because... |
11 November 2008
03:02 GMT |
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The four-year mission in the harsh Martian environment is leaving yet another imprint on one of NASA's twin rovers. While Spirit is currently hibernating in the northern region of the planet, Opportunity is still on route to exploring Victoria Crater's Cape Verde. The voyage to the cliff was recently stoppe... |
25 April 2008
03:04 GMT |
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Well, it seems that NASA 'did it again', so to say. Just recently the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, responsible for the Mars Exploration Rover program, was ordered to apply a budget cut of 4 million US dollars for the 2008 fiscal year. Yet another cut was scheduled for the 2009, totaling 8 million ... |
26 March 2008
04:00 GMT |
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Although still healthy and working round the clock of the surface of the Red Planet, NASA's twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity may soon find themselves hibernating for a undefined amount of time. If mechanical and software problems won't disable them permanently, NASA will surely do so. According to a NASA ... |
25 March 2008
05:11 GMT |
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West of Sumatra, away from the main trade routes, Mentawai Islands seem ideal for maintaining a life style known in other places 10,000 years ago. The largest island of the group is Siberut, located at 10 hours of boat traveling from Sumatra. Siberut is 110 km (68 mi) long and 50 km (30 mi) wide. Until the beginning ... |
17 March 2008
17:26 GMT |
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We can all understand Jobs' recent position revealed in a "private communication" in which Apple's CEO acknowledges "the beating his company’s shares have taken during this time of economic uncertainty," yet remains "confident that investors would inevitably recoup their losses and then some," according to ... |
29 January 2008
05:08 GMT |
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No, it's not a fake! Just to clear it out, this image is not some Photoshop creation. In fact, the picture comes directly from NASA, and shows a humanly figure looking extremely similar to a female, holding her arm in the air like it is signaling a car to stop. On the other hand, NASA only sees a rock formation ... |
23 January 2008
04:05 GMT |
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