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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

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

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

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

Mars Rover Team Diagnosing Unexpected Behavior

(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit plans diagnostic tests this week after Spirit did not report some of its weekend activities, including a request to determine its orientation ...

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created Jan 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (7) | comments 1

How Martian winds make rocks walk

Rocks on Mars are on the move, rolling into the wind and forming organized patterns, according to new research.

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created Jan 08, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (5) | comments 8

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

Surviving NASA rover nears rim of Martian crater

(AP) -- Months after the death of the Mars rover Spirit, its surviving twin is poised to reach the rim of a vast crater to begin a fresh round of exploration.

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created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

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

Mars Rover driving leaves distinctive tracks

(PhysOrg.com) -- When NASA's Opportunity Mars rover uses an onboard navigation capability during backward drives, it leaves a distinctive pattern in the wheel tracks visible on the Martian ground.

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created May 19, 2011 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (7) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Alternatives have begun in bid to hear from Spirit

(PhysOrg.com) -- Hopes for reviving NASA's Spirit Mars rover dimmed further with passage last week of the point at which the rover's locale received its maximum sunshine for the Martian year.

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created Mar 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | 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

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

Mars rover Spirit misses communication session

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit skipped a planned communication session on March 30 and, as anticipated from recent power-supply projections, has probably entered a low-power hibernation ...

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created Apr 01, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (9) | comments 3 | 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

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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