Mars rovers roll on with new funding
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NASA has agreed to fund the Mars rover project for six more months, allowing two robotic vehicles to continue to study the red planet.
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PASADENA, CALIF. - The twin Martian robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity will explore the Red Planet for another six months, NASA said Tuesday.
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Updated photos from the Mars rovers allow us to look back at the three-year mission.
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Both rovers were launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on central Floridaâs Space Coast. Spirit ascended in daylight on June 10, 2003.
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By Contra Costa Times, Walnut Creek, Calif.  Dec. 7--WITH MAJOR ADVANCES in robotic technology in recent years, NASA has scored many significant triumphs with uncrewed missions to Mars, Saturn and beyond as well as in Earth orbit.
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NASA thinks its Mars rovers just might keep going and going and going. The space agency has funded another extension of their mission, for an additional six months, if they last.
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NASA has funded another extension of their mission -- an additional six months, if they last. Word from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is that NASA has regained reliable contact with the rovers Spirit and Opportunity
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NASA's Mars rovers don't seem to be wearing out, so mission planners have begun to think more boldly &#151; including a plan to let one climb up a steep slope from a crater it has been exploring to set out across a plain.
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Martian rovers Spirit and Opportunity are going strong 10 months after they began their geological study of the red planet, mission scientists said Thursday.
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Jet Propulsion Lab -- NASA's Mars Global Surveyor, starting its third mission extension this week after seven years of orbiting Mars, is using an innovative technique to capture pictures even sharper than most of the more than 170,000 it has already produced.     One dramatic example from the spacecraft's Mars Orbiter Camera shows wheel tracks of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and the rover itself...
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With each passing day, those peppy robots on Mars - Spirit and Opportunity - churn out extraordinary new views of the red planet. Each android is over a year in operation, relaying a steady stream of eye-catching photos.
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Both rovers, the Spirit and the Opportunity, have more than doubled their intended lifetimes of three months.
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As Spirit and Opportunity continue their treks through the Martian winter -- still on duty nearly a year after their arrivals, back down on Earth, NASA is already planning the robot rover that will follow them.
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LOS ANGELES -- After months of studying rocks and searching for water, the Mars rover Opportunity is taking a look at some of the junk it left behind during its fiery descent last January.
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ITHACA, NY Control of the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity has gradually shifted from the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, to Cornell University in upstate New York.
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Clearing dust storms on Mars allow Nasa's robotic rovers to increase their workload.
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Rolling, rolling, rolling. Keep those Mars rovers rolling. You can almost hear the crack of a Martian whip. Since January, NASAâs Spirit and Opportunity robots have been wheeling and dealing with the red planet.