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Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Digs Cape York, Roves to New Milestone
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2012/07/04 01:57 CDT | 3 comments
Even robots deserve a break once in a while, and when the Mars Odyssey orbiter went into safe mode in June, Opportunity got the chance to hang out and leisurely take in her surroundings at the Red Planet, while the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission downshifted into lower gear.
Posted by Stuart Atkinson on 2012/07/02 11:18 CDT
Earlier today, unnoticed by the vast majority of the world, Opportunity reached and then silently passed a major milestone in her great adventure on Mars. At just before 3am, UK time, Opportunity began her 3000th sol, or martian day, on Mars.
Notes from a Red Planet: Ray Bradbury
Posted by Scott Maxwell on 2012/06/06 11:49 CDT | 2 comments
Mars rover driver Scott Maxwell relates a story of how he handed Ray Bradbury an opportunity to drive on Mars.
Posted by Stuart Atkinson on 2012/06/05 10:00 CDT
Since you last visited, Opportunity has continued to drive downhill – well, what passes for ‘downhill’ on Cape York! – and is now not far at all from the northern edge of the Cape. From where she is now she sees the Meridiani desert stretching away to the north and west, the eastern hills on her right, and the Cape itself behind her. And around her? lots and lots of Homestake-like gypsum veins.
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Opportunity Departs Winter Site for Field of Veins
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2012/06/02 05:43 CDT
The Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity strolled out of her winter haven this May to continue the expedition around Endeavour Crater, roving into yet another Martian spring.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2012/05/14 03:02 CDT | 5 comments
I took a field trip to watch scientists and engineers play in the sand with Mars rover models, and got a bonus tour of some evidence for the "Snowball Earth" hypothesis.
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