NASA anxious to hear from Mars rover as dust storm clears
NASA is anxious to hear from its dust-silenced Mars rover, Opportunity, as the planet's red skies clear.
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Martian skies clearing over Opportunity rover
A planet-encircling dust storm on Mars, which was first detected May 30 and halted operations for the Opportunity rover, continues to abate.
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Aug 31, 2018
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Mars dust storm clears, raising hope for stalled NASA rover
One of the biggest Martian dust storms on record is clearing up after nearly three months, raising hope that NASA's stranded, solar-powered robotic vehicle, Opportunity, will soon come back to life.
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Aug 31, 2018
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Six things about Opportunity's recovery efforts
NASA's Opportunity rover has been silent since June 10, when a planet-encircling dust storm cut off solar power for the nearly-15-year-old rover. Now that scientists think the global dust storm is "decaying"—meaning more ...
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Aug 17, 2018
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Martian dust storm silences NASA's rover, Opportunity (Update)
A massive dust storm raging across Mars has overcome NASA's aging Opportunity rover, putting the unmanned, solar-powered vehicle into sleep mode and raising concerns about its survival, the US space agency said Wednesday.
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Jun 13, 2018
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Opportunity hunkers down during dust storm (Update)
NASA engineers received a transmission from Opportunity on Sunday morning—a positive sign despite the worsening dust storm. Data from the transmission let engineers know the rover still has enough battery charge to communicate ...
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Jun 11, 2018
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Solar-powered rover approaching 5,000th Martian dawn
The sun will rise on NASA's solar-powered Mars rover Opportunity for the 5,000th time on Saturday, sending rays of energy to a golf-cart-size robotic field geologist that continues to provide revelations about the Red Planet.
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Feb 16, 2018
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NASA Mars rover team's tilted winter strategy works
NASA's senior Mars rover, Opportunity, has just passed the shortest-daylight weeks of the long Martian year with its solar panels in encouragingly clean condition for entering a potential dust-storm season in 2018.
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Dec 7, 2017
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New look at 2004's martian hole-in-one site
A new observation from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) captures the landing platform that the rover Opportunity left behind in Eagle Crater more than 13 years and 27 miles (or 44 kilometers) ago.
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Apr 21, 2017
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Rover Opportunity wrapping up study of Martian valley
"Marathon Valley," slicing through a large crater's rim on Mars, has provided fruitful research targets for NASA's Opportunity rover since July 2015, but the rover may soon move on.
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