News tagged with opportunity

Opportunity Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Victoria Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

May 21, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (12) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.

Meteorite Found on Mars Yields Clues About Planet's Past

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 10, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (11) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. ...

Not space junk yet: Mars rovers carry on despite age, ailments

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jun 28, 2009 | 5 / 5 (15) | 4

In one of the most remarkable engineering feats of our time, the aging Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity are still taking orders and sending home pictures more than five years after they were supposed to ...

Mars Rover Update

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 26, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (7) | 5

In January 2004, NASA landed two identical robotic rovers named Spirit and Opportunity on the surface of Mars. The twins were primed for a brief 3-month mission to tell us a story of water and possibly life ...

One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater ...

Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Science and Discovery

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Dec 30, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity may still have big achievements ahead as they approach the fifth anniversaries of their memorable landings on Mars.

Mars Rover Opportunity To Head Toward Bigger Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 22, 2008 | 5 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is setting its sights on a crater more than 20 times larger than its home for the past two years.

Mars Rover Opportunity Ascends to Level Ground

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 01, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (13) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has climbed out of the large crater that it had been examining from the inside since last September.

Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing out of Victoria Crater

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 26, 2008 | 4.9 / 5 (14) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock ...

Rover Confirms Meteorite on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 06, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Composition measurements by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirm that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite.

Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 03, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite.

Mars rover Opportunity sets out on its greatest journey yet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 25, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars rover Opportunity, which has just crawled out of the 800-meter-wide (875 yards) Victoria Crater is setting out on the longest journey of its life. It will take the rover roughly two ...