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Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Sleeps Soundlessly, Opportunity Turns a Corner
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2010/07/31 12:00 CDT
Winter lingers in the southern hemisphere of the Red Planet, but the Sun is beginning to rise higher in the sky and temperatures are slowly rising, signs the Mars Exploration Rovers are heading into spring. While Spirit continued hibernating, Opportunity took in the warmth of the Sun, captured its first dust devil, and picked up the pace in Meridiani Planum on the long journey to Endeavour Crater. Together, the rovers marked six and a half years of exploration.
What's up in the solar system for August 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/07/29 04:22 CDT
What's up in the solar system for August 2010
Dawn Journal: A Year from Vesta
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2010/07/28 12:10 CDT
Dawn Journal: A Year from Vesta
What's up in the solar system in July 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/07/01 01:31 CDT
What's up in the solar system in July 2010
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2010/06/30 12:00 CDT
With winter still freezing the southern hemisphere of Mars, June might have been an uneventful month for your average working robot, but not the Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs). In fact, from the sounds of silence to a major discovery to an injury scare, the rovers' latest trials, tribulations and achievements, have turned the last four weeks into something of an emotional roller-coaster for some members of the MER team.
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2010/06/30 08:24 CDT
Dawn Journal: Dawn 9.0
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Team Announces Major Water Discovery
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2010/06/17 12:00 CDT
Mars Exploration Rover Spirit continued to hibernate this month, parked in place near an old volcanic formation called Home Plate. At the same time though she managed to rove back into the planetary exploration spotlight when a group of the mission scientists announced they had found -- in data from an outcrop the rover visited more than four years ago -- evidence for a past watery environment more suitable for life than any other either Spirit or Opportunity have found, a place where near-pure water existed. 1
What's up in the solar system in June 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/06/01 03:16 CDT
What's up in the solar system in June 2010
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2010/06/01 11:41 CDT
Dawn Journal: Surveying Vesta
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2010/05/31 12:00 CDT
The Mars Exploration Rovers made it through their fourth winter solstice in what is the coldest, most challenging Martian winter the twin robot field geologists have experienced.
Dawn Journal: Matching paces with Vesta
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2010/05/02 11:01 CDT
Dawn Journal: Matching paces with Vesta
What's up in the solar system in May 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/04/30 02:20 CDT
What's up in the solar system in May 2010
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Snoozes Past Viking, Opportunity Snaps Endeavour on Horizon
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2010/04/30 12:00 CDT
The Mars Exploration Rovers' fourth Martian winter is proving to be the harshest one yet and Spirit and Opportunity are getting colder than ever before. With temperatures on the Red Planet dropping in April and the Martian winter solstice still two weeks away, the season has turned into a shivering nail-biter.
What's up in the solar system in April 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/03/31 12:07 CDT
What's up in the solar system in April 2010
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2010/03/31 12:00 CDT
March seems to have come in like a lamb and gone out like a lion on the Red Planet this year as the Mars Exploration Rovers trudged deeper into their fourth winter. While Opportunity finished up work at Concepcin Crater and shifted into gear back on the road to Endeavour Crater, Spirit finished up winter preparations and carried out a limited winter agenda before shifting, it appears, into hibernation mode.
Dawn Journal: It's just a phase
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2010/03/30 12:43 CDT
Dawn Journal: It's just a phase
Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit Parks for Winter, Opportunity Tastes Chocolate Hills
Posted by A.J.S. Rayl on 2010/02/28 11:00 CST
As winter put the freeze on in the southern hemisphere of the Red Planet, the Mars Exploration Rovers slowed down a bit, but continued throughout February to demonstrate the mettle that made them famous: Spirit successfully drove backwards, parked in place for the season, then continued working, as Opportunity roved through rock debris on a cruise around the rim of Concepcin Crater.
Dawn Journal: Forever farther from Earth than the Sun
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2010/02/26 09:14 CST
Dawn Journal: Forever farther from Earth than the Sun
What's up in the solar system in March 2010
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2010/02/24 09:42 CST
What's up in the solar system in March 2010
Dawn Journal: Thruster Two's Time to Shine
Posted by Marc Rayman on 2010/02/10 01:14 CST
Dawn Journal: Thruster Two's Time to Shine
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