Launch of the MER-A spacecraft aboard a Boeing Delta II vehicle scheduled for June 8 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. has been postponed for 24 hours. Due to approaching thunderstorms and ...

sol 1234-1239, July 02, 2007: Spirit remains healthy after attempting to wrap up scientific studies on an outcrop that contains several tantalizing, high-silica targets. High-silica targets are of ...

for a transmission of Spirit’s entry, descent, and landing data. These data will be relayed back to Earth by the MOC. For more information about the Mars Exploration Rovers, visit NASA/JPL’s Mars ...

NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated March 22, 2010. A transmission that ended Wednesday, May 25, will be the last in a ...

A traveling robotic geologist from NASA has landed on Mars and returned stunning images of the area around its landing site in Gusev Crater. Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully sent a radio ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. NASA's Opportunity Mars rover didn't just luck into its amazing longevity. The golf-cart-size ...

This full-circle view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called "Troy," where Spirit became embedded in soft soil ...

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) "Spirit" is stuck in a loop in which it periodically resets its computer as a result of a problem that may be hardware related, MER Project Manager Peter Theisinger ...

NASA's mired Spirit rover remains in a nine-month slumber as it begins the eighth year of its Mars mission, but its twin, Opportunity, keeps chugging along. Spirit landed on the Red Planet Jan. 4, ...