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Free Spirit: Measuring Progress
Engineers continue crab-driving a test rover at JPL in an effort to plan how to dislodge Spirit from loose sand on Mars.
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Free Spirit: Exploring Options
JPL engineers are trying out maneuvers with a test rover on Earth, to plan an escape on Mars for Spirit.
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Free Spirit - Into the Sandbox
Rover Project Manager John Callas explains how getting a test rover stuck in a sandbox on Earth may help get Spirit out of a predicament on Mars.
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JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update
While the Spirit rover is embedded on Mars, engineers are working to create a 'Mars-scape' on Earth to test an escape plan.
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Mars Exploration Rover Update
Being a rover on Mars , one can encounter trying times and triumph. Spirit and Opportunity are currently experiencing both.
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Soaring Over Mars
NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter gives us an unprecedented bird's-eye view of the Red Planet.
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Mars Landing for MSL
The High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment in orbit around Mars has examined many possible landing sites for the 2009 Mars Science Laboratory rover, including the Nili Fossae area seen here.
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Mars Science Laboratory
This animation demonstrates how the rover will enter, descend and land on the surface of Mars.
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Rover Undergrad
Internships at JPL helped one woman build her career as a software engineer working on robotics.
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Building a Clean Dream Machine for Space
Take a behind-the-scenes tour of the Clean Room at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and see the construction of NASA's next mission to Mars.
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Mars Science Laboratory
Did Mars once have an environment capable of supporting life? NASA's next rover will further unravel that mystery.
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Mars Exploration Rover Update
Both rovers have had a little trouble recently, but now they're both back on the road and driving again.
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5 Years and Still Roving on Mars - Spirit
NASA's Spirit rover has faced several challenges over the past five years but it's always been "the little rover that could."
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5 Years and Still Roving on Mars - Opportunity
Opportunity landed near a geological treasure trove on Mars – and that was just the beginning of the rover's discoveries.
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Astronaut Congratulates Mars Rovers From Space
Astronaut E. Michael Finke, commander of the Expedition 18 crew currently aboard the International Space Station, has sent a congratulatory video message to NASA's Mars Exploration Rover team in honor of the rovers’ fifth anniversary.
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Methane on Mars
NASA scientists have discovered methane on Mars. Scientists are not yet sure what is creating this gas, but the explanation could be biological or geological.
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Five Years on Mars
In January, JPL will celebrate the fifth anniversary of Spirit and Opportunity landing on Mars, and the twin rovers will continue with their newest adventures.
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Name That Rover
NASA wants your help to name its next rover to Mars.
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Rover Flight Director Report
Spirit is talking again, after a dust storm put her in a vulnerable state. Engineers hope her energy will continue to improve.
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Phoenix – A Tribute
After a picture-perfect landing, the Phoenix Mars Lander returned unprecedented views and new findings from Mars’ north polar region.
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 "Free Spirit: Exploring Options")
 "Rover testing at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory")
 "JPL's 'Free Spirit' Update")
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 "Is Earth unique in the solar system - the only place where life could have taken hold?")
 "Lucy Abramyan")
 "Building a Clean Dream Machine for Space")
 "Is Earth unique in the solar system - the only place where life could have taken hold?")
 "Spirit's view on Mars")
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 "Opportunity rover")
 "Astronaut Mike Finke")
 "methane concentrations on Mars")
 "Steve Squyres")
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 "Mars Exploration Rover Spirit")
 "Phoenix's robotic arm carries scoop of soil")