9/23/09- Pyramids Dicovered on Mars

5/12/09- Mars Rover Spirit Stuck in Martian Soil

3/31/09- Mars Pictures Display Unusual Anomalies- Video
am sure some can be explained away.. But there are a few that are very unusual.. I never set out to look for forms in rocks or shadows, nor eroded figures in sand.. I tried to do things from a perspective of things that do not fit into their surroundings, just as an archeologist does when doing field research..

3/16/09- Will Google Mars Lead Us To Finding Martians?
Google made it easier to take a stroll on Mars with it's "Google Mars". Similar to Google Maps, Google Mars allows users to scan the surface of Mars, keep track or orbiters, and search for anomalous features. This new Mars Scanning Technology makes the possibility of finding life on Mars much greater.

8/6/08- NASA's Mars Announcement- Perchlorate Found in Martian Soil **UPDATE**
The big NASA buzz the last few days finally broke today. It was previously known that NASA was consulting and briefing the White House and the President about the recent findings the Mars Phoenix Lander discovered. Perchlorate has been found in the Martian soil.

8/6/08- Mars Life-White House Being Briefed About Martian Discoveries
It appears that NASA found something pretty interesting on Mars. So interesting that the President and the White House were briefed on the matter and are seeking approval for it's public announcement. If approved, NASA plans to announce it min to late August or maybe even in September so they can gather more analytical reviews beforehand.

6/1/08- Mars Phoenix Lander May Have Found Ice Already!

5/26/08- Phoenix Mars Lander Looks For Life On Mars

1/29/08- Alien On Mars?- Photos From Rover Spirit (UPDATED)
The NASA Rover Spirit sends back an image that may contain a picture of an Alien walking the surface of Mars. RECENTLY UPDATED: NASA Says It's A Rock..

12/6/06- Water Found on Mars?

12/6/06- NASA To Announce New Significant Mars Finding

4/22/05- Martian Dust Devils On Film - Kinda Crazy

4/9/05- Durable Mars Rovers Sent Into Third Overtime Period
NASA has approved up to 18 more months of operations for Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars rovers that have already surprised engineers and scientists by continuing active exploration for more than 14 months.

4/2/05- OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Soil Survey
Sometimes Opportunity needs to stop and smell the roses … uh, or the soil as the case may be. This week, the science team chose to examine the mineral content of the rippled ground before continuing the ...

4/2/05- SPIRIT UPDATE: Using Extra Energy to Head Uphill
After a very busy weekend, Spirit packed up the robotic arm and headed away from an area dubbed "Paso Robles." Spirit should be able to make good progress towards the "Husband Hill

3/24/05- OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Opportunity Arrives at 'Vostok'
After a long, sustained series of traverses (with a few stops along the way to see the sights) Opportunity has reached "Vostok Crater." The rover began a set of in-situ measurements on the soil

3/24/05- SPIRIT UPDATE: Busy with the Robotic Arm
After some accumulated dust was blown off of Spirit's solar panels on sol 420 (March 9, 2005), the rover has been producing over 800 watt-hours of energy per sol, about twice as much as before the solar-array

3/16/05- Opportunity's mineral-identifying tool malfunctioning
NASA has suspended use of one of the mineral-identifying tools on the Opportunity Mars rover while experts troubleshoot a problem with getting data from the instrument, the robot's miniature thermal emission spectrometer

3/16/05- Opportunity Heading Twords 'Vostok'
The rover took some time away from driving and explored a little crater it approached last week. Once Opportunity is done with the crater, plans call for continuing toward a larger crater, "Vostok"...

3/16/05- High Strength Winds Give Spirit More Power
Spirit is in good health and is successfully using a new version of flight software. After completing an investigation of a rock dubbed "Watchtower," Spirit is returning to a soil area of interest informally labeled "Paso Robles

3/9/05- Opportunity Continues South with New Mobility Software
After a busy week of driving with new mobility software, Opportunity continues to be in excellent health. The rover has traveled 450 meters (just over a quarter of a mile) in 6 sols. Opportunity took a couple of breaks from the trek south to use...

3/5/05- Water On Mars Not Doubted Anymore

3/1/05- From Larry's Lookout To Tennessee Valley
Spirit has spent the last 70 sols climbing up the "Columbia Hills" to reach "Larry's Lookout," a point on "Cumberland Ridge." Having accomplished the trek up to Larry's Lookout, Spirit is getting into position to shoot a panorama of the "Tennessee Valley" located below. Spirit is still in excellent health

2/24/05- Mars Rover Spirit's Intelligence Is Increasing
On sol 394, Spirit drove to a safe spot for good communications with Earth during upload of new software. The rover team successfully loaded all of the new software modules on sol 395 and booted the spacecraft with the latest software on sol 397. At the end of sol 397, the rover team re-booted back into the old software

2/17/05- SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Braving the Dust on Mars
Spirit completed an approximately 13-meter (43-foot) drive toward the "Cumberland Ridge" on sol 388. Spirit spent sol 389 performing the usual set of remote-sensing observations

2/4/05- OPPORTUNITY UPDATE: Poking Around on the Plains
Opportunity continues to be active and healthy, making good progress south across the Meridiani plains with a few hiccups along the way. Despite the early end of one autonomous traverse and a Deep Space Network problem that precluded sending commands on sol 364, the rover covered more than 300 meters (984 feet) in the past week

2/2/05- Opportunity Continues on the Plains After Marking One Year on Mars
After spending 25 sols at the heat shield and nearby meteorite, Opportunity has completed its investigation of both and has started a long migration south. The rover is currently heading for a small crater called "Argo." Dust storms in the vicinity of Meridiani Planum appear to be settling down, and solar power has stabilized

2/2/05- SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Productive with Peace Efforts
Spirit had another productive week in the locale of a target called "Peace." Because of strong interest in the unusual character of "Peace," the team decided to throw the full science instrument payload at the rock.

1/30/05- Spirit Collects More Dust Than Opportunity
Since landing on Mars a year ago, NASA's pair of six-wheeled geologists have been constantly exposed to martian winds and dust. Both rovers have been coated by some dust falling out of the atmosphere during that time, with estimates

1/29/05- Spirit Spots Larry's Lookout As Opportunity Keeps Rolling
Spirit is healthy, but reduced sunlight has been reaching the rover through the atmosphere due to a possible dust storm identified from orbital data. Despite limited energy during the period from sol 367 through sol 373, Spirit made good progress by driving about...

1/28/05- Opportunity has found an iron meteorite on Mars
The pitted, basketball-size object is mostly made of iron and nickel according to readings from spectrometers on the rover. Only a small fraction of the meteorites fallen on Earth are similarly metal-rich. Others are rockier. As an example, the meteorite that blasted the famous Meteor Crater in Arizona is similar in composition

1/7/05- Mars Rovers find Puzzling New Rock
NASA lit a birthday candle today for its twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. The Spirit rover begins its second year on Mars investigating puzzling rocks unlike any found earlier

1/7/05- One Year On Mars, Not Checking Out Heat Shield
On sol 346, Spirit confirmed that it had dumped a potato-shaped rock that had been plaguing Spirit's right rear wheel. Confirmation came by comparison of before and after images from the rear hazard-avoidance camera.

12/13/04- NASA Announces Life Very Possible On Mars!!!

11/26/04- Mars Rover coverage as of 11/18/04
With the Sun still relatively low on the horizon in the early spring season on Mars, rover drivers are forced to seek driving routes that keep the rover and its solar panels tilted northward for energy reasons. That constraint, plus the rocky terrain, will challenge rover drivers in the coming weeks.

10/21/04- Spirit investigates Ancient Rocks, as Opportunity Rolls On
Spirit had a productive week investigating the rock "Tetl." On sol 277, Spirit attempted a drive to the next rock target, "Uchben," which means "ancient" in the old Mayan language. Halfway into that drive, Spirit experienced a repeat problem in the ste

10/21/04- Malfunctions may soon end Rovers Extended Mission
Engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., are working to fully understand the intermittent problem and then implement operational work-arounds. Meanwhile, Spirit successfully steered and drove 3.67 meters (12 feet) on Oct. 17.

10/13/04- Mars rock Escher Shows signs of past water
NASA's Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover. Team members reported the new findings at a news briefing today.

9/29/04- The Mars Global Surveyor Captures Rover Tracks
Dr. James Garvin, NASA's chief scientist for Mars and the Moon, said, "Mars Global Surveyor continues to catalyze new science as it explores Mars at scales compatible with those that our Mars Exploration Rovers negotiate every day, and its extended mission will continue to set the stage for upcoming

9/23/04- Rover Makes Contact After Mars Passed behind Sun
As NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers resumed reliable contact with Earth, after a period when Mars passed nearly behind the Sun, the space agency extended funding for an additional six months of rover operations, as long as they keep working.

9/9/04- Spirit Continues searching during solar conjunction period
Spirit is in safe place to continue daily science observations automatically throughout the solar conjunction period when engineers and scientists will be unable to send commands reliably to the rover. An 18-day period began a transition into solar conjunction

9/5/04- Abrasion tool is fixed, and communication gets harder

8/25/04- Spirit probes deeper into 'Clovis' outcrop
Spirit continued work over the past nine sols at a rock called "Clovis." The rover used its rock abrasion tool, microscopic imager, alpha particle X-ray spectrometer, and Mössbauer spectrometer to probe deeper into the history of this rock. Clovis is the most altered rock encountered by Spirit to date. It is part of a rock outcrop located

8/21/04- It is not ruled out there are active volcanoes on Mars nowadays

8/18/04- More Water On Mars, and Mysterious Rock Found By Rovers

8/17/04- Mars Rovers visualization and simulation software Honored
NASA has selected a data visualization and simulation software package used by Mars rovers and landers, and a software package that can be used in aerospace and industrial flow fluid applications, as the "best of the

8/10/04- Interplanetary Networking Connects Mars To Earth

8/7/04- Opportunity Snaps Microscopic images of Tuktoyuktuk
The rock abrasion tool has been keeping busy at Opportunity's position about 22 meters (72 feet) inside of "Endurance Crater" while rover handlers are preparing for Opportunity's next traverse

8/5/04- To the "Arctic Islands," then possibly to "Burns Cliff"
Mars has seasons like the Earth does, but the seasons are twice as long due to Mars' larger orbit around the Sun. Right now, Mars is approaching northern summer. That also means that it's approaching southern martian winter at the same time.

8/5/04- Rovers Still Searching Mars With a Limited Lifespan