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Latest News About Mars Rovers Opportunity and Spirit
Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity are 6-wheeled, remotely operated explorers on the planet Mars. Learn more about Mars exploration and how the Spirit and Opportunity rovers are doing.
Opportunity landed on the Red Planet eight years ago, and it's still doing science work.
Opportunity is hunkering down at a site called Greeley Haven.
Spirit and Opportunity have made ground-breaking discoveries on the Red Planet.
The Opportunity rover made its find on the rim of Endeavour Crater.
Curiosity, the Mars Science Laboratory, will face challenges getting to the cold dusty world and doing science there. MSL is a very different mission from past Red Planet rovers. Here's how they compare.
During the 13 mile journey of NASA’s Opportunity rover from Victoria to Endeavour craters, an image of the horizon was taken at the end of each drive. Sound represents vibration of the rover while moving and was derived from its accelerometers.
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity - only "warrantee'd" for 90 days – is soon to reach a 13 mile-wide impact site, 7 years after landing. In pursuit of the water story, the team eagerly anticipates a scientific harvest at his deep new site.
NASA put the first cars on the moon and has plans for even newer lunar models.
The first lunar rover used during the Apollo 15 mission has a long and lasting legacy.
Locations on Mars that have been visited by robots from Earth.
Mars rover principal investigator Steve Squyres recalls Spirit's highs and looks toward the future.
Warrantee'd for only 3 months, the robot geologist named Spirit contributed 6 years of deep understanding about the dry Red Planet's wet history. This video highlights the rover's glorious run.
NASA will cease its efforts to contact Spirit, a Mars rover that explored Mars from 2004 to 2010 before going silent.
A Q&A with Pete Theisinger, mananger of the Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will drop a car-sized rover onto the Red Planet in August 2012.
Just after the anniversary of Alan Shepard's flight, scientists named a crater in his honor
