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'Spirit Point' Vista from Opportunity, in Stereo

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Opportunity at work examining 'Tisdale 2,'

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Late afternoon shadows at Endeavour Crater on Mars

Dark Shadows on Mars: Scene from Durable NASA Rover

Late-afternoon shadows add punch to a false-color vista of Endeavour Crater on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover.

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Opportunity looking back at Greeley Haven

Opportunity Rolling Again After Fifth Mars Winter

With its daily supply of solar energy increasing, Opportunity has driven off the sunward-tilted outcrop where it spent its fifth Martian winter.

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Color view of a mineral vein called 'Homestake' near the edge of Endeavour Crater

Paydirt at 8-Year-Old Mars Rover's 'New Landing Site'

A crater NASA's Mars rover Opportunity drove for years to reach is paying off with evidence about wet environments older than any recorded at sites ...

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Mosaic of images taken in mid-January 2012

Durable NASA Rover Beginning Ninth Year of Mars Work

On the eighth anniversary of starting to explore Mars, NASA's rover Opportunity remains busy with new investigations.

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'Greeley Haven' is Winter Workplace for Mars Rover

Researchers plan to keep NASA's Opportunity rover busy through Martian winter at a sun-facing site, "Greeley Haven," where a study of the planet's ...

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Mission News

NASA Presents Software of the Year Award

Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS), novel autonomy software that has been operating on the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity since December 2009, is NASA's 2011 Software of the Year recipient.
NASA Mars Rover Finds Mineral Vein Deposited by Water

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found bright veins of a mineral, apparently gypsum, deposited by water.

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Mission Features

Tributes to Terrorism Victims are on Mars

09.08.11 - Two interplanetary memorials to victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks reside on Mars in tools from New York used by NASA's Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.