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Tag Archives: Spirit
15 February 2012
Spirit spotted on Mars
The intreprid little Mars rover Spirit, which began its mission in 2004 died, mired in sand, in 2009. It couldn’t capture enough sunlight to power up.
Spirit’s twin Opportunity is still going strong!
The orbiting Phoenix, circling Mars since 2006, recently … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Mars, Mars Rover, Opportunity, Phoenix, Spirit
6 Comments
10 August 2011
Opportunity has reached Endeavour!
We’ve lost poor Spirit, but intrepid little Opportunity keeps motoring along.
NASA reports that Opportunity has after a 3 year portion of its already 8 year anabasis has crawled up to Endeavour crater, 14 miles in diameter. We should be able … Continue reading
Posted in Just Too Cool, Look! Up in the sky!
Tagged Mars Rover, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit, Zagnut
10 Comments
19 July 2011
New Mars Rover News
We haven’t forgotten poor Spirit, but…
NASA to Announce Landing Site for New Mars Rover
July 18, 2011
WASHINGTON — NASA and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum will host a news conference at 10 a.m. EDT, Friday, July 22 to announce … Continue reading
25 May 2011
We’ve got Spirit, yes we do! We’ve got Spirit… well… not so much.
Sad news from NASA:
NASA Concludes Attempts to Contact Mars Rover Spirit
The full version of this story with accompanying images is HERE.
PASADENA, Calif. — NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated … Continue reading
28 January 2011
Just too cool stuff
I remain a real fan of the Mars Rover missions. One of the readers here, who works for NASA actually sent me a Spirit mission patch!
Poor Spirit… sniff.
Opportunity is still chugging along.
I tune in once in a while to the … Continue reading
24 March 2010
Older, Smarter
From NASA comes this about one of the intrepid Mars Rovers… Opportunity:
NASA Mars Rover Getting Smarter as it Gets Older
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, has a new capability to make its own choices … Continue reading
29 January 2010
“Do I get to come home?”
President Obama wants to kill NASA and the space program.
In reference to the poor little rover Spirit, stuck on Mars, a reader sent this cartoon:
Sniff.
I must admit I also hated Toy Story, one of the saddest movies ever made.
Technorati Tags: … Continue reading
Posted in SESSIUNCULA
Tagged Mars Rover, martian rover, NASA, Opportunity, Spirit, Toy Story
14 Comments
28 January 2010
SPIRIT! “Another phase of its long life.”
The efforts to free the Martian rover Spirit have failed.
Spirit is now imitating life.
From NASA with my emphases and comments:
WASHINGTON — After six years of unprecedented exploration of the Red Planet, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit no longer will be … Continue reading
12 December 2009
More tests on Spirit: not encouraging
In case you missed this news about the intrepid little Mars Rover Spirit.
Further Tests Designed for Rover’s Right-Rear Wheel
December 07, 2009
A series of diagnostic tests on Spirit’s right-rear wheel on sols 2104 and 2105 (Dec. 3 and 4) investigated stalls … Continue reading
3 November 2009
Spirit is stuck!
From the site of NASA:
Spirit Embedded in Soft Soil on Mars as Engineers Devise Methods to ‘Free Spirit’
This view from the panoramic camera on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called "Troy," where Spirit became … Continue reading
