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.

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 ...

Image: This full-circle view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit shows the terrain surrounding the location called “Troy,” where Spirit became embedded in soft ...

The Mars rover Spirit is still operational, but NASA scientists will stop trying to free it from a sandtrap and focus on the rover's survival and ability to conduct experiments where it's stuck.

PASADENA, Calif. — Loose soil piled against the northern edge of a low plateau called “Home Plate” has blocked NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from taking the shortest route toward its southward ...

This is the first image taken of Earth from the surface of another planet. It was captured by NASA’s Mars rover, Spirit, one hour before sunrise on the 63rd martian day, or sol, of its mission in 2004 ...

Spirit is healthy and has completed its investigation of a knobby rock target known as “GoodQuestion.” Next on Spirit’s itinerary is a drive to the north and an attempt to climb onto “Home Plate.” On ...

NASA is ending attempts to regain contact with the long-lived Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, which last communicated March 22, 2010. A transmission that ended Wednesday, May 25, will be the last in a ...

Scientists at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory are giving up on the Martian rover Spirit. The six-wheeled robot has been mired in sand for about two years, and the final commands issued early ...

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