Water On Mars: NASA's Opportunity Rover Finds Evidence That Red Planet May...
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has made perhaps the biggest discovery of its nearly 10-year career, finding evidence that life may have been able to get a foothold on the Red Planet long ago. The...
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Scientists on Friday called NASA's Opportunity rover gimpy and arthritic, but hailed its new discoveries about early water on Mars made almost 10 years after it was launched toward the Red Planet. The...
View ArticleAncient Mars rover Opportunity makes a watery discovery
After almost 10 years of roaming the red planet, the Opportunity rover has made a new discovery that offers scientists more clues about Mars's watery history. NASA researchers announced Friday that a...
View ArticleHints of a life-friendly ancient Mars
A Martian rock analysed by Nasa's rover Opportunity contains clays formed in non-acidic water, an environment potentially suitable for the chemistry of ancient life to brew. The solar-powered...
View ArticleMars Rover Opportunity Trekking Toward More Layers (NASA - The National...
(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) June 07, 2013 PASADENA, Calif. - Approaching its 10th anniversary of leaving Earth, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is on...
View ArticleAging Mars rover makes new water discoveries
Mars Exploration rover Opportunity's view of "Solander Point". Photo: NASA Washington: Scientists on Friday called NASA's Opportunity rover gimpy and arthritic, but hailed its new discoveries about...
View ArticleSecond rover finds hint of a life-friendly ancient Mars
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A Martian rock analyzed by NASA's rover Opportunity contains clays formed in non-acidic water, an environment potentially suitable for the chemistry of ancient life...
View ArticleOld Mars rover digs up evidence for drinkable water
An old Mars rover that landed nine years ago has found the latest evidence that drinkable water once flowed on the Red Planet. Combined with previous, similar discoveries, this suggests that neutral...
View ArticleNASA’s Opportunity rover heading to new destination well ahead of next...
LOS ANGELES — NASA’s Opportunity rover is rolling across the Martian surface again, leaving behind a clay-rich rock in search of more discoveries. Mission managers said Friday that the plan calls for...
View ArticleNasa's veteran Mars rover driving to new spot
LOS ANGELES: Nasa's Opportunity rover is rolling across the Martian surface again, leaving behind a clay-rich rock in search of more discoveries. Mission managers said on Friday that the plan calls...
View ArticleDelightful geological puzzles for Mars rover
The gift that keeps on giving ... everything from Opportunity over the past eight years has been a bonus. Photo: NASA WHILE many obsessed over speculation that NASA's newest Mars rover, Curiosity, had...
View ArticleBig picture on Mars: NASA rover snaps stunning view of Red Planet
This full-circle scene combines 817 images taken by the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity.NASA/JPL-Caltech/Cornell/Arizona State This full-circle scene combines...
View ArticleThe Opportunity Rover Begins Year 10 on Mars
The older, smaller cousin of NASA's huge Mars rover Curiosity is quietly celebrating a big milestone today — nine years on the surface of the Red Planet. NASA's Opportunity rover landed on Mars the...
View ArticleOpportunity rover beginning study of Martian clays
NASA's Opportunity mission, laboring halfway around Mars from the headline-stealing Curiosity rover, is giving geologists their first up-close glimpse of Martian clays, leftovers from an ancient...
View ArticleNASA's Opportunity Rover Begins Year 10 on Mars
The older, smaller cousin of NASA's huge Mars rover Curiosity is quietly celebrating a big milestone today (Jan. 24) — nine years on the surface of the Red Planet. NASA's Opportunity rover landed on...
View ArticleOpportunity Rover Finds Clay Minerals At Mars Crater Rim, NASA Says
LOS ANGELES — After rolling around the Martian plains for more than eight years, the Opportunity rover finally found a spot believed to be rich in clay minerals, scientists said Tuesday. Orbiting...
View Article>Rover Opportunity may be at clay-rich site on Mars
LOS ANGELES (AP) — After rolling around the Martian plains for more than eight years, the Opportunity rover finally found a spot believed to be rich in clay minerals, scientists said Tuesday. Orbiting...
View ArticleRover Opportunity may be at clay-rich site on Mars
After rolling around the Martian plains for more than eight years, the Opportunity rover finally found a spot believed to be rich in clay minerals, scientists said Tuesday. Orbiting spacecraft...
View ArticleMars Rover begins mountain climbing
By Mike WallPublished October 27, 2013Space.com NASA's Mars rover Opportunity captured this southward uphill view after beginning to ascend the northwestern slope of "Solander Point" on the western...
View ArticleMars Rover Opportunity Begins Climbing Martian Hill
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover has started scaling the tallest hill it has yet encountered in its nearly 10 years of Red Planet exploration. Opportunity is working its way up "Solander Point," the...
View Article10 Years on Mars: NASA Rover Mission Celebrates 10th Martian Birthday
Ten years ago today, NASA dropped the first of two rovers onto the surface of Mars, kicking off a wildly successful mission that continues to beam home data about the Red Planet and its wetter, warmer...
View ArticleSpirit Rover Landed on Mars 10 Years Ago Today
Want to stay on top of all the space news? Follow @universetoday on Twitter Ten Years Ago, Spirit Rover Lands on Mars This bird’s-eye view from August 2005 combines a self-portrait of the spacecraft...
View ArticleNASA's Opportunity Rover Yields More Data on Changes to Mars' Environment
Download image NASA Logo. (PRNewsFoto/NASA) WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 2014 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- New findings from rock samples collected and examined by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity have...
View ArticleOpportunity still roving on Mars after a decade
A decade after landing on Mars, the rover Opportunity is still chugging along. Sure, it has some wear and tear. One of its six wheels and two instruments stopped working long ago. It has an arthritic...
View ArticleNasa's Opportunity chalks up10 years roving Mars surface
A decade after landing on Mars, the rover Opportunity is still chugging along. Sure, it has some wear and tear. One of its six wheels and two instruments stopped working long ago. It has an arthritic...
View ArticleA decade after landing on Mars, NASA's Opportunity rover still going strong
Published January 24, 2014Associated Press This artist rendering released by NASA shows the NASA rover Opportunity on the surface of Mars. Opportunity landed on the red planet on Jan. 24, 2004 and is...
View Article10-year-old Opportunity rover finds old 'drinking water' on Mars
Old rovers can indeed learn new tricks. Rolling into its 10th anniversary on the Red Planet, Opportunity has discovered clay minerals showing that life-friendly water flowed on Mars in the earliest...
View ArticleMars Rover Opportunity Heads Uphill (NASA - The National Aeronautics and...
(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity captured this southward uphill view after beginning to ascend the northwestern slope of...
View ArticleRover Finds New Evidence That Ancient Mars Was Habitable
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has made perhaps the biggest discovery of its nearly 10-year career, finding evidence that life may have been able to get a foothold on the Red Planet long ago. The...
View ArticleNASA's Opportunity Rover Yields More Data on Changes to Mars' Environment...
(Source: NASA - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration) NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the component images for this self-portrait about three weeks before completing a...
View ArticleMars rover Opportunity finds sign of 'water you could drink'
NASA’s Mars rover Opportunity has scraped away at some of the oldest rock it's examined and found the strongest signs for water it has ever discovered over its 9.5-year mission, scientists for the Mars...
View ArticleOpportunity rover starts year 10 on Mars with remarkable science discoveries
Today, Opportunity celebrates a truly unfathomable achievement, starting Year 10 on Mars since she rolled to a bumpy stop on January 24, 2004 inside tiny Eagle crater. And she's now at a super sweet...
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