Opportunity and Spirit Mars Rovers

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. 

Related Topics: Curiosity Mars Rover Mission, ExoMars, India Mars Orbiter Mission, Mars, Maven Mars Mission

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NASA is celebrating the New Year on Mars on June 19, 2015. One Mars year is 687 days long, nearly twice the time of an Earth year, due to Mars' longer orbit around the sun.

Happy New Year, Mars! NASA Toasts Martian Calendar Milestone

By Elizabeth Howell published

It's New Year's Day on the Red Planet today and NASA is celebrating in style with an epic three-day party in Mars itself … Mars, Pennsylvania, that is.

Illustration of MAVEN Orbiting Mars

NASA Spacecraft Takes 'Deep Dip' Into Martian Upper Atmosphere

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA's newest Mars probe recently made a risky dive into the Red Planet's upper atmosphere to learn more about how the planet's climate changed over time.

Chart shows highlights of Opportunity's marathon drive.

Inside Opportunity's Record-Setting Marathon Drive on Mars (Infographic)

By Karl Tate published

Opportunity completed the distance covered in the traditional footrace.

Dark Streaks in Coprates Chasma

How Can We Protect Mars from Earth Germs, While Searching for Life?

By Elizabeth Howell published

OnSight Holographic Planning Tool

Walking on Mars: NASA, Microsoft Explore Red Planet with Wearable HoloLens

By Elizabeth Howell published

NASA is planning to do science operations with the Curiosity rover using software co-developed with Microsoft for its new wearable technology, the HoloLens.

Canadian Beaver Rover Prototype

Canadian Crowdfunding Project Aims to Build Mini Mars Rover

By Elizabeth Howell published

A Canadian company wants to land a couple of robots on Mars in late 2018, but to do so, it might need your help.

Hubble Space Telescope Views Comet Siding Spring.

Comet Siding Spring at Mars: How a Rare Celestial Event Was Discovered

By Elizabeth Howell published

Tweet this page Opportunity's Rear-Facing View Ahead After a Drive

Mars Rover Opportunity to Have Memory Wiped

By Ian O'Neill published

The time has come -- the little Mars rover needs its first memory wipe.

How the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers work.

How NASA's Mars Rovers Spirit and Opportunity Work (Infographic)

By Karl Tate published

For 10 years the robots have roved across Mars, making exciting discoveries about water in the planet's past.

Setting Sun on Mars

10 Years on Mars: Smithsonian Celebrates Spirit, Opportunity Rovers (Photos)

By Space.com Staff published

The new 'Spirit and Opportunity: 10 Years Roving Across Mars' exhibition chronicles NASA;s Mars Exploration Rover mission at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC.

Rosetta Spacecraft Artist Impression

Big Space Missions to Watch in 2014

By Miriam Kramer published

From a new rover on the moon, to the most powerful digital camera ever built, space will be buzzing with human activities in 2014.

Since the 1960s, humans have invaded our neighboring planet Mars with swarms of spacecraft. Only about half of the attempts have been successful.

Occupy Mars: History of Robotic Red Planet Missions (Infographic)

By Karl Tate published

Since the 1960s, humans have invaded our neighboring planet Mars with swarms of spacecraft. Only half of the attempts ever succeeded.

Graph of the distances driven by robots, rovers and automobiles on other planets.

Distances Driven on Other Worlds (Infographic)

By Karl Tate published

Distances driven by wheeled vehicles on the Moon and Mars.

Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Looks Back

Opportunity Looks Back After Hop to a New Pad Space Wallpaper

By Space.com Staff published

In this space wallpaper,Rover makes progress on long trek to Endeavour Crater.

John Young, astronaut and Navy veteran, salutes the U.S. flag at the Descartes landing site during the first Apollo 16 extravehicular activity (EVA-1). Young, commander of the Apollo 16 lunar landing mission, jumps up from the lunar surface as astronaut a

NASA's 10 Greatest Science Missions

By Space.com Staff published

A brief look at the space agency's science and exploration highlights.

Mars Opportunity Greeley Have

'Amazing' Mars Rover Opportunity Begins Year 9 on Red Planet

By Mike Wall published

Opportunity landed on the Red Planet eight years ago, and it's still doing science work.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its navigation camera to capture this view of a northward-facing outcrop, "Greeley Haven," where the rover will work during its fifth Martian winter.

NASA Picks Mars Winter Rest Stop for Long-Lived Rover

By Space.com Staff published

Opportunity is hunkering down at a site called Greeley Haven.

Mars Rovers Celebrate 10 Years on Red Planet

NASA Rover Mission Marks 8 Pioneering Years on Mars

By Mike Wall published

Spirit and Opportunity have made ground-breaking discoveries on the Red Planet.

This view from the front hazard-avoidance camera on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the rover's arm's shadow falling near a bright mineral vein informally named "Homestake."

NASA Rover Finds Convincing Evidence of Water on Ancient Mars

By Mike Wall published

The Opportunity rover made its find on the rim of Endeavour Crater.

Apollo 17 mission commander Eugene A. Cernan makes a short checkout of the Lunar Roving Vehicle during the early part of the first Apollo 17 extravehicular activity at the Taurus-Littrow landing site in 1972.

Driving on the Moon: Photos of NASA's Lunar Cars

By Space.com Staff published

NASA put the first cars on the moon and has plans for even newer lunar models.