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- 3D model of the Mars rovers completed
- Mars orbiter 10 years anniversary
- Mission to search for life on Saturn-moon proposed
- Planned NASA/European Mars-mission InSigth
- New images of old Mars-lander
- Food and diet for a Mars-mission
- Mars rover begins 9th year of Mars work
- Russian Mars probe crashes
- Mars rover to spend winter at 'Greeley Haven'
- Mars-bound rover begins research in space
- Euopean autonomous Mars-rover being developed
- European scientist play key-role
- No new contact with Russaian Phobos-Grunt spacecraft
- Curiousity heading for Mars
- The Curiosity rover's journey to Mars
- Launch for Mars Science Lab saturday
- Car-sized Mars rover ready for launch nov 25
- Curiosity rover could conclude the water question
- Microbe risk when rover wheels hit Martian dirt
- Epic search for life heats up with focus on new high-tech
- Mars-rover approaches large crater
- NASA announces news briefing on Mars science findings
- Landing site selected for next Mars-rover
- NASA will soon decide on where to land
- The long jorney of the curiosity rover to Mars
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Mars rover celebrates 7th year on crater-rim
Friday, 07 January 2011 15:18
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The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this view of the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity Dec. 31, 2010, on the southwestern rim of a football-field-size crater called "Santa Maria."where it will hold a 7th year anniversary
Opportunity arrived at the western edge of Santa Maria crater in mid-December and will spend about two months investigating rocks there. That investigation will take Opportunity into the beginning of its 8th year on Mars. Opportunity landed in the Meridiani Planum region of Mars on Jan. 25, 2004, Universal Time for a mission originally planned to last for 3 months.
The new image is online at http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/multimedia/gallery/pia13754-anno.html and http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/releases/oppy-santa-maria.php . |
Opportunity and its twin, Spirit, which passed its seventh anniversary on Mars this week, both have made important discoveries about wet environments on ancient Mars that may have been favorable for supporting microbial life.