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Dark Shadows on Mars: Scene from Durable NASA Rover
Late-afternoon shadows add punch to a vista of Endeavour Crater on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover.
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Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter
NASA's durable Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop, called Greeley Haven, where it worked during its fifth Martian winter.
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Paydirt at 8-Year-Old Mars Rover's 'New Landing Site'
A crater NASA's Mars rover Opportunity drove for years to reach is paying off with evidence about wet environments older than any recorded at sites the rover has seen before.
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Dusty Mars Rover's Self-Portrait
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera (Pancam) during the mission's sols 1282 and 1284 (Sept. 2 and Sept. 4, 2007) to take the images combined into this mosaic view of the rover.
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Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work
Eight years after landing on Mars for what was planned as a three-month mission, NASA's enduring Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is working on what essentially became a new mission five months ago.
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Three Generations of Rovers
This grouping of two test rovers and a flight spare provides a graphic comparison of three generations of Mars rovers.
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'Greeley Haven' Is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover
Researchers plan to keep NASA's Opportunity rover busy through Martian winter at a sun-facing site, "Greeley Haven," where a study of the planet's core has begun.
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NASA Presents Software of the Year Award
Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS), novel autonomy software that has been operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity since December 2009, is NASA's 2011 Software of the Year recipient.
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Tributes to Terrorism Victims Are on Mars
Two interplanetary memorials to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks reside on Mars in tools from New York used by NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
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