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Opportunity Rover Enters New Chapter in Mars Exploration

NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has finally arrived at the giant crater Endeavour, after nearly three years of intrepid driving across the surface of the Red Planet.The golf cart-sized rover made landfall at its destination yesterday (Aug. 9) when it pulled up to a vista called Spirit Point on the rim of Endeavour crater , NASA officials announced today. Endeavour is a vast scar in Martian surface that is about 14 miles (22 kilometers) across."It's a blast," the rover's deputy principal investigator, Ray Arvidson, told SPACE.com. "It's a brand-new mission."The 7-year-old Opportunity has been aiming for Endeavour crater since mid-2008, when it left a smaller crater (called Victoria) after a two-year pit stop. The aging rover is expected to spend years at Endeavour, if it lasts that long, in order to study rocks at the site that have never been seen before."NASA is continuing to write remarkable chapters in our nation's story of exploration with discoveries on Mars and trips to an array of...

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    As a car-size rover named Curiosity prepares to land on Mars, another small robotic explorer — NASA's Mars rover Opportunity — is on track to set its own record: The...

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  4. NASA Begins Escape Attempt for Stuck Mars Rover

    The effort to free NASA's Spirit rover, currently mired in sand on Mars, will begin in earnest today, when engineers team send the first escape commands to the stuck...

  5. NASA Plots Targets for Mars Rover

    NASA ( search ) said Tuesday it has picked two locations on Mars for its  Spirit rover ( search ) to visit: a nearby crater and, later, a distant cluster of hills th...

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    This story was updated on May 5 at 9 a.m. ET.Beneath their rugged exterior, some Martian rocks could have hid life in the ancient past, scientists suspect. An examin...

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