News tagged with gusev crater
Dust Storm Passing Over Spirit
(PhysOrg.com) -- The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of ...
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Aug 26, 2009 |
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The landing-site specialist
(PhysOrg.com) -- Gale crater has been sitting just below the equator of Mars, minding its own business, for at least three and half billion years. But in August 2012, a capsule is going to come screaming out ...
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Oct 19, 2011 |
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NASA research offers new prospect of water on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA scientists are seeing new evidence that suggests traces of water on Mars are under a thin varnish of iron oxide, or rust, similar to conditions found on desert rocks in California's Mojave ...
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Jul 02, 2011 |
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Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity's View
(PhysOrg.com) -- In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that ...
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Jul 29, 2010 |
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Mars rover instrument helps identify outcrop of long-sought rare rock on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- It's amazing what cleaning your glasses can reveal. A mineral-scouting instrument developed at Arizona State University has found an outcrop of rock rich in carbonates in the Columbia Hills ...
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Jun 03, 2010 |
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Reconnaissance Orbiter Reveals Details of a Wetter Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has observed a new category of minerals spread across large regions of Mars. This discovery suggests that liquid water remained on the planet's surface a ...
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Oct 28, 2008 |
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Foot-dragging Mars rover finds Yellowstone-like hot spring deposits
Deposits of nearly pure silica discovered by the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in Gusev Crater formed when volcanic steam or hot water (or maybe both) percolated through the ground. Such deposits are found ...
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May 22, 2008 |
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Mars rovers find new evidence of 'habitable niche'
Inch by power-conserving inch, drivers on Earth have moved the Mars rover Spirit to a spot where it has its best chance at surviving a third Martian winter -- and where it will celebrate its fourth anniversary ...
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Dec 21, 2007 |
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HiRISE Camera Views the Mars Rover 'Spirit' at 'Home Plate'
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, camera onboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has taken a new color image of the feature dubbed "Home Plate" in Gusev Crater on Mars.
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Nov 26, 2007 |
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Mars Rovers Survive Severe Dust Storms, Ready for Next Objectives
Two months after sky-darkening dust from severe storms nearly killed NASA's Mars exploration rovers, the solar-powered robots are awake and ready to continue their mission. Opportunity’s planned descent into ...
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Sep 10, 2007 |
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Images show threat the rovers face in giant Martian dust storm
The mighty Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity continue to persevere in brutal conditions, as revealed in images of the sun they are sending home. The images show how opaque the Martian atmosphere has been ...
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Aug 30, 2007 |
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