On04, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to ...

NASA's Spirit rover looks like it is going to fade away due to the harsh Martian winter. The space agency said it has ended attempts to gain contact with the Spirit rover. According to NASA, the ...

When Spirit dropped through the thin Martian air and bounced to a stop inside Gusev Crater, it did more than survive a ...

On January 3, 2004, NASA’s Spirit rover successfully completed a major step in space exploration history, touching down on ...

Freelance writer Amanda C. Kooser covers gadgets and tech news with a twist for CNET. When not wallowing in weird gear and iPad apps for cats, she can be found tinkering with her 1956 DeSoto. With ...

Efforts to free the stuck Spirit rover on Mars have been dragging on since May and a NASA official said Sept. 14 the robot may never get free. “We are proceeding very cautiously and exploring all ...

The five wheels that still rotate on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ground.

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After more than six years touring the Red Planet, the spunky little research rover may finally have met its nemesis: a sand trap. Jennifer Guevin was a managing editor at CNET, overseeing the ...

NASA is no longer sending commands to the Spirit rover on Mars, but the long-silent robot still has a few more chances to phone home. Not that anyone is expecting Spirit to call, more than a year ...

[Photo: NASA] NASA is ending attempts to contact the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit after communications stopped on March 22, 2010. For the past 10 months, NASA has been pinging the rover ...

Recently, the Mars Exploration Rover "Spirit" has been sleeping through work shifts and suffering from bouts of amnesia. John Callas, rover project manager at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...