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Mars and Earth Activities Aim to Get Spirit Rolling Again

Mars and Earth Activities Aim to Get Spirit Rolling Again

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created May 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's rover project team is using the Spirit rover and other spacecraft at Mars to begin developing the best maneuvers for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become ...


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Odyssey Flight Team to Check Status of Backup System

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created Mar 04, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter plans a procedure next week to address a long-known, potential vulnerability of accumulated memory corruption.





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Mars Orbiter's Computer Reboots Successfully

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created Mar 12, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter properly followed commands today to shut down and restart, a strategy by its engineers to clear any memory flaws accumulated in more than five years since Odyssey's ...


NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander

NASA Finishes Listening for Phoenix Mars Lander

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created Dec 02, 2008 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (11) | comments 10

(PhysOrg.com) -- After nearly a month of daily checks to determine whether Martian NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander would be able to communicate again, the agency has stopped using its Mars orbiters to hail the ...


Scientists monitor developing Mars dust storm

Scientists monitor developing Mars dust storm

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created Apr 20, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists at Arizona State University's Mars Space Flight Facility are using the Thermal Emission Imaging System (THEMIS) on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter to monitor a new dust storm that has ...


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Mars orbiter enters safe mode after disturbance

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created Jun 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (10) | comments 4

NASA says its powerful Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode after being hit by a cosmic ray or solar particle.


Orbiter Safe After Computer Swap

Orbiter Safe After Computer Swap

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created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is in safe mode, a precautionary standby status, and in communications with Earth after unexpectedly switching to its backup computer on Thurs. Aug. 6.


Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground

Mars Odyssey Alters Orbit to Study Warmer Ground

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created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's long-lived Mars Odyssey spacecraft has completed an eight-month adjustment of its orbit, positioning itself to look down at the day side of the planet in mid-afternoon instead of late ...


Better looks at Mars minerals for ASU instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter

Better looks at Mars minerals for ASU instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter

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created Jun 22, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

A slow drift in the orbit of NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft that mission controllers started nine months ago is now giving an ASU instrument a better and more sensitive view of minerals on the surface of Mars. ...


One Mars Orbiter Takes First Photos of Other Orbiters

One Mars Orbiter Takes First Photos of Other Orbiters

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created May 19, 2005 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Photographs from NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft released today are the first pictures ever taken of a spacecraft orbiting a foreign planet by another spacecraft orbiting that planet.


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Mars Orbiter Puts Itself in Safe Mode Again

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created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter put itself into a safe mode Wednesday morning, Aug. 26, for the fourth time this year, while maintaining spacecraft health and communications. While in safe ...


NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander

Spacecraft at Mars Prepare to Welcome New Kid on the Block

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created Feb 28, 2008 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Three Mars spacecraft are adjusting their orbits to be over the right place at the right time to listen to NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander as it enters the Martian atmosphere on May 25.



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