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Sandtrapped Rover Makes a Big Discovery

Homer's Iliad tells the story of Troy, a city besieged by the Greeks in the Trojan War. Today, a lone robot sits besieged in the sands of Troy while engineers and scientists plot its escape.

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created Dec 03, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (56) | comments 11

NASA trapped Mars Rover finds evidence of subsurface water

(PhysOrg.com) -- The ground where NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit became stuck last year holds evidence that water, perhaps as snow melt, trickled into the subsurface fairly recently and on a continuing ...

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created Oct 28, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (21) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Not space junk yet: Mars rovers carry on despite age, ailments

In one of the most remarkable engineering feats of our time, the aging Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are still taking orders and sending home pictures more than five years after they were supposed to ...

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created Jun 28, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 4

NASA ends effort to free rover from Martian sand

(PhysOrg.com) -- After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be a fully mobile robot. NASA has designated the once-roving scientific ...

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created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Spirit's Journey to the Center of Mars

Mars rover Spirit has tenaciously swept, scraped, and squeezed secrets from the forbidding surface of Mars for 6 years. Now at an impasse, up to its belly in sand, it has struggled to tilt its solar panels ...

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created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (12) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

No word from stuck NASA Mars rover Spirit

The odometer on the Mars rover Spirit has been stuck at 4.8 miles for more than 1 1/2 years and has been incommunicado since March.

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created Jan 02, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (13) | comments 27

Scientists work to free Mars rover Spirit

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past several weeks, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory finished experimentation on methods to get the rover Spirit unstuck from its location near a plateau called Home Plate.

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created Oct 13, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Future uncertain for stuck Mars rover

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars rover Spirit will mark six years of unprecedented science exploration and inspiration for the American public on Sunday. However, the upcoming Martian winter could end the roving ...

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created Jan 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mars Rover Yielding New Clues While Lodged in Martian Soil

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history.

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created Jun 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (11) | comments 1

Mars rover Spirit has unexplained computer reboots

(AP) -- NASA's aging Mars rover Spirit has rebooted its computer at least twice for unknown reasons.

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created Apr 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (13) | comments 19

New views show old NASA Mars landers

(PhysOrg.com) -- The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter recorded a scene on Jan. 29, 2012, that includes the first color image from orbit showing ...

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created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (11) | comments 10 | with audio podcast

NASA hangs up on silent Mars rover Spirit (Update)

Shortly after midnight, NASA sent one last plea to the rover Spirit, mired in a sand trap on the surface of Mars.

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created May 24, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 2

NASA: Mars rover, phone home after yearlong sleep

The prospect of ever hearing from the stuck Mars rover Spirit is fading after it failed to respond to repeated calls from Earth.

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created Mar 29, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (18) | comments 6

Spirit rover's wheels stuck in soft Martian dirt

(PhysOrg.com) -- The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ...

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created May 12, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 0

NASA's Hibernating Mars Rover May Not Call Home

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet -- trying to survive the harsh Martian winter. ...

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created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Spirit

The English word "spirit" has many differing meanings and connotations, but commonly refers to a supernatural being or essence — transcendent and therefore metaphysical in its nature: the Concise Oxford Dictionary defines it as "the non-physical part of a person". For many people, however, spirit, like soul, forms a natural part of a being: such people may identify spirit with mind, or with consciousness, or with the brain.

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