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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Angola and Mandriva signed today a broad technical cooperation agreement, which should help Angola reach its aim: becoming an information society.Angola recently celebrated 5 years of peace after a period of almost 30 years of internal conflicts. Its economy is growing at a fast pace thanks to a large quantity of nat... |
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