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SPIRIT UPDATE: Spirit Remains Silent at Troy http://marsrover.nasa.gov/mission/status.html

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: The Mission

So Opportunity played a small role in Curiosity's landing. by kbpc Aug 7

Mars Exploration Rovers

The line drawn on this map shows the route that NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has driven. Opportunity has been working on Mars since January 2004, at sites within the Meridiani Planum ... http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/06/mars-orbiter-catches-pic-of-curiosity-on-its-way-down/#.UVRDCtF-P0M This is truly astonishing: the HiRISE camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter snapped what may turn out to be the Space Picture of the Year: Curiosity descending to Mars under its parachutes! Holy. Haleakala. The rover is safely tucked inside the backshell, suspended underneath its huge parachute.

Mars orbiter catches pic of Curiosity on its way down!

Mars Science Laboratory, the Next Mars Rover

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/index.html This set of graphs shows variation in the amount and the depth of water detected beneath NASA's Mars rover Curiosity by use of the rover's Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) instrument at different ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/innovations/post/mars-rover-curiosity-approaches-the-red-planet-live/2012/08/05/c51c9068-dd8c-11e1-af1d-753c613ff6d8_blog.html 8:23 p.m. - NASA releases short video of Mars rover descent We discovered via io9 this video of the Mars rover Curiosity making its way toward the surface of Mars. The thumbnail images in sequence and taken by the Mars Descent Imager (MARDI) show the rover in the last two-and-a-half minutes of Curiosity’s descent to Mars:

Mars rover Curiosity lands, NASA releases new image and video: ‘The surface mission of Curiosity has now begun’ - Ideas@Innovations

Mars Exploration Rover Mission: Home

Home of Spirit and Opportunity by kbpc Aug 7