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Opportunity Mars Rover Blazes Past 40 Year Old Space Driving Record

May 18, 2013

Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Now more than 9 years and counting into her planned mere 90 day mission to Mars, NASA’s legendary Opportunity rover has smashed past another space milestone and established a new distance driving record for an American vehicle on another world this [...]

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Opportunity Rover Starts Year 10 on Mars with Remarkable Science Discoveries

January 27, 2013

Image caption: Opportunity Celebrates 9 Years and 3200 Sols on Mars snapping this panoramic view from her current location on ‘Matijevic Hill’ at Endeavour Crater. The rover discovered phyllosilicate clay minerals and calcium sulfate veins at the bright outcrops of ‘Whitewater Lake’, at right, imaged by the Navcam camera on Sol 3197 (Jan. 20, 2013). [...]

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Rover Team Chooses 1st Rock Drilling Target for Curiosity

January 14, 2013

Image caption: Time lapse mosaic shows Curiosity rover’s arm movement from raised position to surface deployment on Sol 149 (Jan. 5) for contact science near the lower point of the slithery chain of narrow protruding rocks known as ‘Snake River’ – located inside the basin called “Yellowknife Bay’. The rover team will soon conduct historic [...]

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A Penny for your Curiosity on Mars

February 27, 2012

NASA’s huge Curiosity Mars Science Lab (MSL) rover is carrying a vintage Lincoln penny along for the long interplanetary journey to Mars – and it’s not to open the first Martian savings account. Scientists will use the century old Lincoln penny – minted back in 1909 – as a modern age calibration target for one [...]

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Opportunity Phones Home Dusty Self-Portraits and Ground Breaking Science

February 22, 2012

Opportunity, the Princess of Martian Robots, phoned home dusty new self portraits – above and below – of her beautiful bod basking in the utterly frigid sunshine during her 5th winter on the Red Planet whilst overlooking a humongous crater offering bountiful science. NASA’s endearing robot is simultaneously carrying out an ambitious array of ground [...]

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