Topic: Troy

NASA's Mars Rover Appears Stuck for Good

Scientific American - 691 days ago
The Mars rover Spirit, which in January passed its sixth anniversary of landing on the Red Planet, will apparently rove no more. NASA announced in a January 26 teleconference that Spirit, stuck for months in a patch of soft soil known as ...

Spirit Stuck but Still Sleuthing

Astrobiology Magazine - 916 days ago
NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history. While Spirit awaits extraction instructions, the rover is keeping busy examining Troy, which is ...

Mars rover Spirit down but not out

CNET - 948 days ago
The Mars rover Spirit is gathering strength from its solar collectors, but for now remains stuck in place while engineers back on Earth attempt to free the wayward robot. Spirit landed on Mars on January 4, 2004, to begin what was intended ...