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NASA Probe Poised to Set Record for Longest Mars Mission
By Space.com Staff published
A NASA spacecraft is coming up on a record-breaking milestone: Next week, the space agency's Mars Odyssey orbiter will have worked longer at Mars than any other spacecraft in history.
Seasonal Red Planet: NASA's Spirit Rover Completes One Full Martian Year
By Tariq Malik published
NASA's Spirit rover currently exploring Mars completed one full swing around the Sun Monday, giving researchers a year-long look at the Martian seasons.
Trapped Mars Rover Finds Signs of Buried Martian Water in Recent Past
By Mike Wall published
NASA's stuck Mars rover Spirit has found more evidence that water trickled beneath the Red Planet's surface in the past — perhaps even within the last few hundred thousand years.
Mars Rover Gets Up-Close and Personal With Meteorite
By Space.com Staff published
A new photo yields an up-close view of a meteorite the Mars rover Opportunity found on the Red Planet last month.
Opportunity Rover Finds 6th Mars Meteorite
By Mike Wall published
After spending the weekend studying a meteorite on Mars, NASA's rover Opportunity headed to yet another space rock — the sixth it has discovered on the Red Planet.
NASA Rover Finds Another Possible Meteorite on Mars
By Mike Wall published
NASA Mars rover Opportunity has apparently found another meteorite on the surface of the Red Planet.
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