Here is a panorama shot from this morning on Mars. The Opportunity Rover is in the process of doing some "Drive, baby, Drive!" to commandeer a phrase from the part of the right dependent on oil for wealth. The rover is not actually going very fast in human terms. On a good day it goes about 70 meters, but it can only do that five or six days in a row, and then it has to work on some ...

... unlikely place to plant a garden. But rocks and minerals found by the Mars rovers show it must once have had warmer, habitable living conditions. Now, ... to execute such methods are far beyond that which any government or society is willing to allocate. snip The Mars trilogy is a series of award-winning science fiction novels by ...

We hadn't visited the NASA Mars rovers in a while here at Gizmodo, so I thought I'd take a look today and see what they're up to. Unfortunately, things could be better. You see, while ... but could become crippling if they start happening more often. It's troubling, yes, but we must remind ourselves these rovers were built for 90-day missions. Spirit is currently going on five years, ...

... reach 8 km in height, and have extended the life of Mars rovers by blowing the dust off their solar panels. ... flat plains (the better for the canal system). No one dreamed that Mars had both the highest mountain and the largest canyon in the Solar System ... break mountains have faded along with the forces that make them. Now the winds of Mars produce only dust devils. (And the occasional planetwide ...

Opportunity has come upon another big rock on Mars. But what is it? Another meteorite? A big clump of ejecta from an old impact? There's lots of other ... available…. (...) Read the rest of One Strange Mars Rock (29 words) © nancy for Universe Today, 2009. | 10 comments | Add to del.icio.us Post tags: Mars, Mars Rovers, Opportunity Feed enhanced by Better Feed from ...

... and astronomy themes. And here's another space-related post from The Big Picture - Mars from MRO. Incredible images. Carl liked to talk about how Mars and the other planets are ... ;m sure he would be pleased with how intimately we've gotten to know the place called Mars over the last few years, thanks to the Mars Rovers, MRO, and other robotic explorers. Thanks to Bad Astronomy for the tip.