PASADENA, Calif. -- After a near seven-month journey from Earth, NASA's Spirit robotic rover bounded onto the rocky surface of Mars late Saturday, informing anxious space agency officials and ...

This video explored the story of Spirit, the Mars rover that was expected to last 90 days but ended up surviving six years on ...

This digital elevation map, produced from satellite data overlain on an image taken by the Mars Orbital Camera on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft, shows changes in elevation along the trek of ...

LOS ANGELES -- The odometer on the Mars rover Spirit has been stuck at 4.8 miles for more than 1 1/2 years and has been incommunicado since March. This double dose of bad luck hangs over the scrappy ...

It took almost 2000 days for the defunct Spirit rover to travel 4.8 miles across the surface of Mars, but thanks to this time-lapse by YouTuber Oisiaa, you can relive its entire journey in 3,418 ...

The Mars Orbital Camera on NASA’s Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft took this image of the topography traversed by NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit in months prior to the rover’s 318th martian day ...

He directed a team of engineers that built Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity, mobile robots that offered astonishing glimpses into the planet’s ancient past. By Sam Roberts Growing up in California, ...

The US Spirit Mars rover communicated with Earth for 10 minutes overnight, one day after suffering a serious breakdown that cut off reception, NASA has said. Data sent by the rover was captured by one ...

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PASADENA, Calif.- Scientists and engineers gathered Tuesday at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory to remember the legacy of the hard-luck rover Spirit that came through in the end with geologic evidence ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- With the tug of Martian gravity building by the moment, NASA's Spirit robotic rover accelerated toward the Red Planet late Saturday and gave signals of a successful landing.