NASA has launched a new Web site to chronicle its efforts to save the Mars rover Spirit.
Engineers placed a rock underneath the test rover at JPL on July 1, 2009, to more closely simulate Spirit's predicament on Mars.
A live videocast and chat from JPL will give viewers a chance to ask questions of rover team members working to get Spirit rolling again.
NASA engineers hold live webcast Q&A for Free Spirit endeavor.
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars rover team members have begun a new phase of testing at JPL -- using longer-duration experiments -- in their preparations for driving Spirit again on Mars.
... test rover in a sand box filled with soil to mimic the Martian surface. It is possible that in early August the first extraction attempts with Spirit rover, which is dug-in on Mars, might take place.
As the Mars rover team uses testing at JPL to evaluate possible ways to drive Spirit out of loose soil on Mars, the team is finishing tests of individual "building block" maneuvers and is about to ...
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 12 (UPI) -- NASA scientists say they plan to begin transmitting commands to the Mars exploration rover Spirit in an attempt to free the robot from martian sand.
PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 18 (UPI) -- NASA says it failed to free its stuck Mars explorer Spirit on the first attempt.
Spirit experienced a wheel stall with the right-rear wheel during the second step of a two-step drive on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21).
ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) -- There are so many parents in this free-spirited, unconventional small town who won't get their kids vaccinated that federal researchers are paying money just to hear their ...
Opportunity and Odyssey spacecraft aide in effort to free Spirit rover from Martian sand.
A nebula creates a cosmic watercolor, dusty knots form
"fireworks" in space, rover drivers get down in the dirt to try to
free Spirit, and more among the week's best space pictures.
Crunch time approaches for a decision on how to free Spirit from a sand trap.
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