+ NASA Homepage + NASA en Español + Marte en Español + Mars Home Time on Mars Rover Status Spirit:  Flash Memory in Use Again >> Opportunity:  Approaching "Marquette Island" >> NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover  >> Opportunity Finds Another Meteorite  >>   Latest Press Images Latest Press Release (November 12, 2009) Latest Audio Press Conference All Press Images All Press Releases All Videos All Raw Images Panorama Images 3-D Images Where are the Rovers now? Take Me Out to the Ballpark – On Mars! Students in fourth through seventh grade will work to create the ultimate baseball experience "on Mars," even designing the rules for how to play a game on the Red Planet. >> Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year. >> Team Runs Operational Test to Prepare for Extracting Spirit Engineers using test rovers on Earth to prepare for extracting the sand-trapped Spirit rover on Mars have added a new challenge to their preparations. >> Squyres Wins Carl Sagan Medal For Public Outreach For his work making NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission a compelling saga for millions of people, Steven Squyres, has received the 2009 Carl Sagan Medal from the American Astronomical Society. >> Dust Storm Passing Over Spirit The amount of electricity generated by the solar panels on Spirit has been declining for the past several Martian days, or sols, as a regional dust storm moved southward and blocked some of the sunshine at Spirit's location. >> Second Test Rover Added to Driving Experiments A second, lighter-weight test rover has entered the testing setup at JPL where rover team members are assessing strategy for getting Spirit out of soft soil where it is embedded on Mars. >> Planned Rover Test to Run a Week or More Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week. >> more features >> Free Spirit: Nov 12 Plotting an Escape Free Spirit: Rescuing a Rover Part 1 of 2 Free Spirit : Rescuing a Rover Part 2 of 2 Mars Exploration Rover Update, July 15 Free Spirit - Measuring Progress Weather Movie, Mars South Polar Region, March-April 2009 (Close) Weather Movie, Mars South Polar Region, March-April 2009 (Far) more videos >> + Freedom of Information Act + The President's Management Agenda + FY 2002 Agency Performance and    accountability report + NASA Privacy Statement, Disclaimer, and    Accessiblity Certification Last Updated: + Comments and Questions