(AXCH) 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers - News, Status, Technical Info, History

3a. Best From Mars (Newest First)

[2004-03-02] MER Opportunity - Water, Water, Everwhere!

Accumulation of a plethora of evidence reveals Mars's watery past! Mission successful.
Read about it in this Press Release.
Browse lots of water-related graphs and images to see for yourself.

[2004-02-26] MER Opportunity - Sunset

Starting at 5:30pm, one-minute time-lapse Pacnam capture of the sun setting below the horizon:
Quicktime (806 KB) |

GIF (2.3 MB) | still JPEG (21 KB) | (info, details).

[2004-02-23] MER Opportunity - Cutting Berries

RAT grinding of "McKittrick" rock reveals innards of one of the mysterious spherules (MI):

JPEG (91 KB) | JPEG (647 KB) |

Hazy Hills 3-D | (info, details).

Separate closeup (MI) view of an embedded spherule: Hazy Hills page.

[2004-02-21] MER Spirit - Inspecting the Trench

Spirit (F Hazcam) casts a shadow over the trench that the rover is examining with tools on its robotic arm:
JPEG (9 KB) |

JPEG (29 KB) | JPEG (90 KB) | TIFF (263 KB) | (info, details).

Trench closeup: Hazy Hills page.

Arm over trench: Hazy Hills page.

[2004-02-19] MER Opportunity - Inspecting the Trench

Rover arm sweeping over trench (F Hazcam): GIF (95 KB) | GIF (534 KB) |

GIF (1.9 MB) | (info, details).

Arm over trench: Hazy Hills page.
Sparkling spheres in the trench (MI): JPEG (97 KB) |

JPEG (318 KB) | JPEG (805 KB) | TIFF (1.1 MB) | (info, details).

[2004-02-17] MER Opportunity - Trench Digging

"Yesterday we dug a nice big hole on Mars," said Jeffrey Biesiadecki, a rover planner at NASA's JPL. (Press Release).
Hole (first dug by either rover) dimmensions are: ~50cm long x ~20cm wide x ~10cm deep.
Surrounding crater + trail to trench (Navcam/Hazcam mosaic): JPEG (64 KB) |

JPEG (315 KB) | JPEG (2.3 MB) | TIFF (11 MB) | (info, details).

Hazcam animation of the dig: GIF (372 KB) |

GIF (638 KB) | GIF (2.0 MB) | GIF (2.2 MB) | (info, details).
The hole (Hazcam): JPEG (34 KB) | JPEG (317 KB) | (info, details) || Cropped: JPEG (26 KB) |

JPEG (134 KB) | (info, details).

Hole Anaglyph (Hazcam):

JPEG (134 KB).

[2004-02-12] MER Spirit - Views from the Drive

Animation from images captured by Front Hazcam during 2004-02-09 ~21.2m drive:
GIF (256 KB) |

GIF (1.4 MB) | GIF (4.9 MB) | (info, details)

Animated reconstruction of driving AI showing topography during 2004-02-11 ~24m drive to Stone Council:
GIF (333 KB) | GIF (1.4 MB) |

GIF (1.6 MB) | (info, details).

[2004-02-09] MER Opportunity - Dirty Little Spheres

Highlighting the oddly regular pebbles and spherules that speckle the rock dubbed Stone Mountain (and surrounding dirt).
Stone Mountain context (Pancam): JPEG (18 KB) | JPEG (63 KB) | JPEG (1.9 MB) | TIFF (41 MB) | (info, details).
Stone Mountain closeup (Pancam): JPEG (62 KB) |

JPEG (783 KB) | TIFF (3.2 MB) | (info, details).
Stone Mountain closeup (Pancam), stretched false color: JPEG (121 KB) |

JPEG (1.8 MB) | TIFF (3.2 MB) | (info, details).

Stone Mountain closeup (Pancam) anaglyph: JPEG (456 KB).
Pebbly Dirt closeup (MI):

JPEG (65 KB) | JPEG (325 KB) |

GIF (178 KB) | More in Sol 14 MI Raw Images.

More berries in 3-D (2004-02-12): JPEG (106 KB) | JPEG (1.2 MB) | (info, details) |

Free-view 3D.
More images and info available with 2004-02-09 and 2004-02-12 Press Releases.

[2004-02-08] MER Spirit - First Rock Grinding

"The greatest interplanetary brushing of all time" (Gorevan) followed by a 3 hour RAT rock grinding (first ever). Ground patch is 45.5 mm in diameter and 2.65 mm deep.
Spirit's hand in front of the "Adirondack" rock (Pancam):

JPEG (116 KB) |

JPEG (139 KB).
Post grinding 2 (Pancam, gray):

JPEG (62 KB) | JPEG (384 KB) | TIFF (1.1 MB) | (info, details).
Post grinding 3 (Pancam, color): JPEG (194 KB).
Grinding results composite closeup: JPEG (63 KB) |

JPEG (232 KB) | JPEG (355 KB).

[2004-02-06] MER Opportunity - First Drive away from Lander

Highlights of Opportunity's first drive (~6m) over three Sols.
Front Hazcam (linearized) Thumbnails: JPEG (36 KB) | JPEG (202 KB).

Front Hazcam (linearized) Animated: GIF (289 KB) |

GIF (881 KB) | GIF (3.5 MB) | GIF (3.5 MB) | (info, details).
Front Hazcam Thumbnails: JPEG (43 KB) | JPEG (234 KB).

Front Hazcam Animated: GIF (303 KB) |

GIF (1 MB) | GIF (3.9 MB) | GIF (4.1 MB) | (info, details).

Front Hazcam rock outcropping Free-view 3D: Free-view 3D.
Rear Hazcam Thumbnails: JPEG (32 KB) | JPEG (183 KB).

Rear Hazcam Animated: GIF (229 KB) |

GIF (782 KB) | GIF (2.8 MB) | GIF (2.8 MB) | (info, details).

Looking back Anaglyph: JPEG (34 KB) | JPEG (180 KB) |

JPEG (586 KB) | (TIFF 2.7 MB) |

Free-view 3D | (info, details)

Looking back Free-view 3D:

Free-view 3D.

[2004-02-04] MER Opportunity - Closeup of Dirt and Rocks

Microscopic Imager shows composition of dirt and pebbles at the Meridiani landing site.
Scale: Examined patch of soil is 3 cm across. Circular grain in the lower left is ~3 mm across, or about the size of a sunflower seed.
Dirt, Normal: JPEG (125 KB) | JPEG (933 KB) | TIFF (1.1 MB) | (info, details).
Dirt, RGB-Stretched: JPEG (137 KB) |

[2004-02-06] Animation flipping between before/after Mössbauer spectrometer was pressed down to take measurements:
Dirt, Animated: GIF (168 KB) |

flipped GIF (638 KB) | flipped GIF (2.6 MB) | GIF (2.6 MB) | (info, details).

[2004-02-02] MER Opportunity - First Hi-Res 360° Color Panoramic

Pancam color mosaic (225 individual frames) showing surrounding terrain and airbag bounce/roll marks in sand:
Image: JPEG (14 KB) | JPEG (291 KB) | JPEG (8.5 MB) | TIFF (48 MB) | (info, details).
Fullscreen QuickTime VR:

QuickTime VR (zoom in on the rocks!).

[2004-02-02] MER Opportunity - Stretching out the Arm

Front hazcam view of outstretched arm.
Normal: JPEG (25 KB) |

JPEG (54 KB) | TIFF (263 KB) | (info, details).

Anaglyph: JPEG (42 KB) | JPEG (578 KB) | TIFF (2.9 MB) | (info, details).

[2004-02-02] MER Opportunity - Instruments on the Arm

Views (from Pancam, on Mars) of four main instruments on the end of the Rover's arm.
RAT (Rock Abrasion Tool): JPEG (40 KB) |

JPEG (78 KB) | (info, details)
Microscopic Imager: JPEG (40 KB) |

JPEG (76 KB) | (info, details)
APXS (X-Ray Spectrometer): JPEG (36 KB) |

JPEG (73 KB) | (info, details)
Mössbauer Spectrometer: JPEG (22 KB) |

JPEG (73 KB) | (info, details)
Press Release containing images and descriptions.

[2004-01-31] MER Opportunity - Off the Lander, Looking Back

Rear hazcam view of the lander shortly after successfully rolling off.
Normal: JPEG (25 KB) |

JPEG (277 KB) | TIFF (1.1 MB) | (info, details).

Anaglyph: JPEG (48 KB) | JPEG (679 KB) | TIFF (3.2 MB) | (info, details).

[2004-01-26] MER Opportunity - First Days, Inside the Crater

Pancam color postcard, facing west-southwest, of dark interior of surrounding crater at Meridiani Planum:

JPEG (378 KB) | JPEG (4.1 MB) | TIFF (22.1 MB) | (info, details).

Anaglyph: JPEG (28 KB) | JPEG (652 KB) | JPEG (6.7 MB) | (info, details).

[2004-01-25] MER Opportunity - Meridiani Planum, Just Landed!

MER-B Opportunity landed successfully at Meridiani Planum and sent back these image of its new surroundings!
Pancam color mosaic:

Navcam Stereoscopic 3D images: Hazy Hills Page.

[2004-01-23] MER Spirit - More on Spirit's Landing

New information and data regarding Spirit's landing on Mars. More information here.

Animated GIF showing landing site before/after: GIF (435 KB) | GIF (734 KB).
Annotated landing site, (from orbiting Mars Global Surveyor [2004-01-19]): JPEG (25 KB) | JPEG (237 KB) | GIF (4 MB).
Final 30 seconds flyby tours, reconstructed from telemetry data:
Flyby tour 1: Thumbnail JPEG (16 KB) | AVI (18.5 MB).
Flyby tour 2: Thumbnail JPEG (11 KB) | MPEG (5.5 MB).

[2004-01-21] MER Spirit - Empty Nest

Spirit's now empty landing site, the Columbia Memorial Station, at Gusev Crater, Mars. This spectacular view may encapsulate Spirit's entire journey, from lander to its possible final destination toward the east hills. Pancam mosaic taken from ~2m away.
Empty Nest: JPEG (46 KB) |

JPEG (159 KB) | JPEG (1.3 MB) | JPEG (3 MB) | (info, details).

[2004-01-20] MER Spirit - Probing the Adirondack Rock

Probing the first target rock, Adirondack. From front hazcam. At the time this picture was snapped, the rover had begun analyzing the rock with the alpha particle X-ray spectrometer located on its robotic arm.
Probing: JPEG (49 KB) |

JPEG (99 KB) | TIFF (263 KB) | (info, details).
Adirondack (on approach, from pancam):

JPEG (50 KB) | JPEG (401 KB).

[2004-01-16] MER Spirit - Martian Dirt ... in 3D!!!

Odd to get excited over a picture of dirt, but this is the "sharpest look yet at the surface of another planet" (src: NASA), and it's in 3D. Taken by Spirit's Microscopic Imager on newly deployed arm.

Dirt Anaglyph: JPEG (116 KB) |

JPEG (209 KB) | TIFF (2.5 MB) | (info, details).
Dirt Stereo Pairs:

Hazy Hills Page.
How good is the Microscopic Imager? Here (tests at JPL) it looks at a penny:
Penny: JPEG (40 KB) | JPEG (93 KB) | TIFF (240 KB) | (info, details).

[2004-01-16] MER Spirit - Feels Good to Flex The Arm

From front hazcam, a view of Spirit's newly unfolded arm (aka Instrument Deployment Device (IDD)).
Normal:

JPEG (51 KB) | JPEG (115 KB) | TIFF (1.1 MB) | (info, details).

[2004-01-15] MER Spirit - First View Back from Off the Lander

From rear hazcam, approx 1m away from lander, first image sent back of Spirit's nest for the last 12 Sols. First time rover touched Martian soil.
Normal: JPEG (45 KB) |

JPEG (107 KB) | (info, details).

Anaglyph: JPEG (51 KB) | JPEG (94 KB).

Stereo Pairs:

Hazy Hills Page.

[2004-01-12] MER Spirit - First 360° Color Panoramic

Spectacular high resolution panoramic of Spirit's surroundings. (This mosaic was stitched from 225 frames taken by Spirit's panoramic camera, spanning 75 frames across, 3 frames tall, with color information from shots through three different filters.)
Image: JPEG (30 KB) |

JPEG (49 KB) | JPEG (1.9 MB) | TIFF (46.4 MB) | (info, details)
QuickTime VR: QuickTime VR | (info page)
Fullscreen QuickTime VR:

QuickTime VR (WOW! even the hills are labelled)

[2004-01-08] MER Spirit - Panoramic Color Postcard

Panoramic color postcard, looking to the north:
JPEG (86 KB) | JPEG (1.6 MB) | TIFF (67.5 MB !) | (info, details)
[2004-01-07] MER Spirit - PanCam Terrain Anaglyph Image

PanCam Anaglyph: JPEG (66 KB: small) | JPEG (1 MB: ~3Kpx3Kp) | TIFF (29 MB - wow) (info, details).

[2004-01-06] MER Spirit - First Color Image

"The highest resolution image ever taken on the surface of another planet" -- NASA
JPEG (59 KB) |

JPEG (8.05 MB!) | (info, details).
QuickTime VR: QuickTime VR | (info page).

[2004-01-04] MER Spirit - Initial Navcam 3-D Views

Full set: Hazy Hills First Light (well arranged).

[2004-01-04] MER Spirit - Initial Navcam Panoramic View

Mosaic Image: JPEG (57 KB) | TIFF (1 MB) | (info, details).

Mosaic Image (red/blue 3-D): JPEG (36 KB) | JPEG (74 KB).
QuickTime VR: QuickTime VR | (info page).
Flash version (from Florida Today): Flash (works in Flash 5).
360° Flash Panoramic!: Flash | (info) (requires Flash 6).

[2003-06-10] MER Spirit - RocketCam Launch Video

Videos taken from RocketCams mounted to launch rockets (gallery):
MER-A "Spirit": MPEG:

large (9.2 MB) | small (3.1 MB) || QuickTime: large (4.6 MB) | small (1.3 MB).
MER-B "Opportunity" MPEG:

large (9.5 MB) | small (3.9 MB) || QuickTime: large (3.8 MB) | small (0.8 MB).

3b. Media Databases

Images: NASA Mars Rovers Public Image Gallery (various categories).
Images: NASA Mars Rovers Press Release Images - Spirit (by date).
Images: NASA Mars Rovers Press Release Images - Opportunity (by date).
Images: NASA Mars Rovers Raw Spirit Images (by Sol and camera - good link).
Images: NASA Mars Rovers Raw Opportunity Images (by Sol and camera - good link).
Images: NASA Mars Rovers JPL Image Archives (by date).
Images: MER Imagery Technical Index (full index of raw MER images from JPL, by date/time, plus auto-gen color composites/anaglyphs!).
Images: Center for Mars EXploration CMEX Image Navigator (by category, great images).
Images: NASA Planetary PhotoJournal: Mars (full searchable DB, up to date).
Images: SystemsFirst Mars JPL Server Mirror (mirror (HTTP/FTP) of JPL images, video. Includes custom-made color 3-D images!).
Images: MarsQuest Online Image Library: Spirit | Opportunity (Flash6 required).
Images: Terragen/MOLA generated Red Planet Rendered Image Gallery.
Images+: HabitableZone's MER2003 Image Workbench (ALL raw images organized, stereo-views, custom flipbook anims, more. Heavy DHTML/JavaScript, requires newer browsers (eg).)
Images+: MERIL - Mars Exploration Rover Image Library (organized mirror of images, video, more).
ImagesVR: Hans Nyberg's QuickTimeVR Mars Archive (great fullscreen QTVRs of Mars).
Images3D: Mars Unearthed Home | MER Anaglyph Index | Good Spirit Anaglyphs (nice site, good images).
Images3D: Hazy Hills Mars 3D: (Spirit first light) (Opportunity first light) (Great collection of updated free-view 3D Mars images).
Images3D: David Neufer's Be On Mars extreme photo constructions (well made and nicely arranged anaglyphs).
Images3D: Thom Bone's Mars Site (lots of nice custom-made red/cyan 3D stereo pictures).
Videos: Mars Rovers Challenges of Getting to Mars.
Videos: Mars Rovers General Videos.
Videos: Center for Mars EXploration CMEX Online Movies (great QT movies, some James Earl Jones narration).
Videos: Discovery Channel dailyplanet (updated news, images, animations, analysis).

3c. Miscellaneous

Image: NASA Project Team Photo.
Image: NASA MER Rover Diagram (with detailed callouts).
Video: Maas Digital's MER Animated Illustration (QT dl) (dramatic, scientifically accurate, fully CG).
Video: Color Rotating Mars (made from 1995 HST images).
Video: PBS NOVA MARS Dead Or Alive (excellent hour-long online video program).
Video (Live) - NASA TV || RealMedia/WinMedia, src NASA: NASA Feed.
Info: Conspiracy? No. NASA Is Not Altering Mars Colors (alt) (explanation of PanCam, wrt strange appearance of calibration sundial in some pics).
Info: MER2004 Image EDR filename encoding/decoding: NASA EDR Filename Key | Filename visual overview, src: Cave of Mars.

5a. MER2004 Rovers and their Instruments

NASA Rover Technology Overview: Rover Overview Index | Rover Diagram.
Rover General Overview: | Info (src: exploratorium) | Parts (src: Planetary Society) | Technical Data (compilation).
Cornell Athena main page (responsible for instruments) (great site, very technical, updated).
Rover Instruments (General) info: | Info (src: NASA) | Info (src: Athena) | Info (src: Planetary Society) .
Rover Instruments (Specific): | Mini-TES (home) | Pancam | RAT | Mössbauer Spectrometer .
Rover Pancam: Info (src: Athena) | Tech Briefing (PDF 52 KB) | Info (src: Planetary Society) | Info (src: NASA) | Info (src: Caves of Mars).
Rover Pancam Innards Photo (showing color filter wheel): (JPEG 54 KB | 160 KB | 795 KB) .
Rover Pancam Filter Specs (showing approximate color swatches in browser).
Rover APXS (Alpha-Particle-X-Ray Spectrometer): Info (src: Athena) | Info (src: Planetary Society) | Info (src: NASA) .
Rover Arm Instruments as seen on Mars (RAT, Microscope, APXS, Spectrometer) - Press Release.
Rover CPU (radiation-hardened RAD6000 32-bit RISC chip): by BAE Systems | (Press Release).
Rover Operating System: VxWorks | by Wind River Systems | (Press Release).
Rover Brains Overview article (on CPU, OS, memory, temperature, etc.).
Rover Arm (aka Instrument Deployment Device (IDD)): by Alliance Spacesystems, Inc. (ASI) | (Press Release).
Rover RAT (Rock Abrasion Tool): by Honeybee Robotics | (Press Release (DOC)) || scientific paper (PDF 243 KB).
Mars Rover Owner's Manual (unofficial) from Astrobiology Magazine (good overview, mission, and technical details).
Planetary Society MER and Soujourner Rover Comparison.

5b. MER2004 Launch, Voyage, Entry, Descent, and Landing

Spacecraft Technology: Launch Vehicle | Spacecraft | Cruise Config | Entry/Descent/Landing.
Entry/Descent/Landing (EDL): Timeline | Step by Step | Diagram | Slideshow.
MER2004 Airbags Overview.
Baltimore Sun article on airbags vs. thruster-and-leg approach.

5c. MER2004 Landing Sites

Mars Odyssey orbiter image showing MER landing sites: JPEG (62 KB) | JPEG (378 KB)
NASA Mars MER2004 Landing Sites | (Flash6 version).
NASA Spirit Mars landing site: Gusev Crater.
NASA Opportunity Mars landing site: Meridiana Planum | More on Target Ellipse.
Wikipedia entries: MER-A (Spirit) landing in Gusev Crater || MER-B (Opportunity) landing in Meridiani Planum.
Spaceflight Now Gusev Crater article.
NASA - Previous Mars landing sites: Pathfinder, Viking 1, Viking 2.
NASA data-heavy NAS landing site info (from NASA Supercomputer guys).
polygonworlds Mars3D MER Virtual Landing Site Reconstructions (pretty pictures).
Mars weather: Malin (MSSS) MGS weekly weather forecast (including forecasts at MER landing sites).

5d. MER2004 General Mission Info

Mars MER2004 Mission Home Page.
NASA M2K4 Mars 2004 Flash Site (slick Flash6 interface).
MER2004 Mars Exploration Rover Landing Press Kit (PDF 1MB, 46pgs) from NASA .
Mars MER2004 Overview Fact Sheet (PDF 310KB, 3pgs)
Mars MER2004 Mission Project Team (Team Photo Page).
Mars MER2004 Mission Athena Science Team (includes links to personal pages).
NASA Ames Computational Sciences Division: Destination: Mars (more) (good mission overview, covers a lot of the custom ground control software).
Mars MER2004 Mission Timeline.
Wikipedia entries: Mars Exploration Rover Mission | MER-A (Spirit) | MER-B (Opportunity).
Mars MER2004 Communication with Earth | DSN (Deep Space Network) | Wikipedia: DSN || Illustration: JPEG (38 KB) | JPEG (207 KB).
Maestro - Explore Mars with the program that NASA scientists use to operate Spirit and Opportunity. Download Maestro now!
NASA Article: Revealing Mars' True Colors (all about cameras, imaging, panoramas, the team, the issues, transmission, etc.).
MER2004 Image EDR filename encoding/decoding: NASA EDR Filename Key | Filename visual overview, src: Cave of Mars.

5e. Planet Mars

Wikipedia entry: Mars (Planet).
NASA NSSDC Mars Fact Sheet (bulk params, earth comparison, atm, rot, orbit, satellites).
Views of the Solar System Mars Scientific Data (excellent and detailed, with data tables, images, history).
Planetary Society Mars Facts (comparison to Earth and Luna).
NASA Welcome to the Planets: Mars (good info, pretty image-based feature navigation).
NASA GISS Time On Mars (Java program and browser applet which displays a Mars "sunclock").
Marsbase Time On Mars table (sunrise, sunset, solar time, mars local time, sol date, etc.).
Marsbase Mars Clock Schematics (how to build your own Mars clock).
Marsbase Mars Sky Finder chart (find Mars in tonight's sky - cool!).
Marsbase Mars Map - labelled atlas of the regions of Mars (good, easy to read).
NASA Mars Today (daily generated poster with Mars conditions and relationship to Earth).
NASA Center for Mars EXploration (CMEX) (atlas, calendar, gallery, science, etc.).
NASA CMEX Mars and Earth Comparison (scientific data table).
NASA CMEX Mars Orbital Characteristics (compared with Earth too).
NASA CMEX Seasons on Mars.
John Walker's "Orrery": Solar System Live (view current position of the planets - awesome tool).
USGS Astrogeology Research Program Martian System Nomenclature | USGS More Mars Info.
Pamela J. W. Gore's Mars Stat Sheet (atmosphere, general characteristics, volcanism, surface features, etc.)
Bill Arnett's Nine Planets: Mars | more pics.
Cochise Mars Geological Overview (many links to stories and pics).
University of Glasgow's Mars Facts (bullet point textual facts).
Mars weather: most info comes from Mars Orbital Camera (MOC) and Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) aboard Mars Global Surveyor (MGS).
Mars weather: Daily Martian Weather Report (from MGS science team, interesting but out of date).
Mars weather: MGS Thermal Emission Spectrometer Project Homepage | Daily TES temperature data.
Mars weather: Malin (MSSS) MGS weekly weather forecast (including forecasts at MER landing sites).

5f. Stereoscopic (3D) Photography and Images

General - Stereoscopic Photography Overview by John Wattie (includes X and U free-viewing (cross and parallel), without equipment).
General - Stereoscopic X-Rays of a Sea Shell by John Wattie (great starting point to practice free-viewing).
General - JPL Spotlight: How to make 3-D pictures (goot description of how to shoot and generate anaglyphs).
General - read/blue anaglyph 3-D glasses, sources (unaffiliated): NASA recommended vendors || Photo 3-D (high quality, online order) || Mars Unearthed (free, send e-mail req) || Reel 3-D (bulk, online order) || Rainbow Symphony (free, send SASE req) || spaceKids (KIDS ONLY, free, send e-mail req) || Berezin Stereo Photography (largest selection) || 3-D images Ltd (in UK, free by email or phone).
General - China3D (Chinese) specializes in color anaglyphs, including this color Spirit anaglyph and this color anaglyph.

(AXCH) 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers - News, Status, Technical Info, History

1. Welcome / Introduction

2. Table of Contents

3. Multimedia (Images, Videos, 3D Photos, more)

3a. Best From Mars (Newest First)

[2004-03-02] MER Opportunity - Water, Water, Everwhere!

[2004-02-26] MER Opportunity - Sunset

[2004-02-23] MER Opportunity - Cutting Berries

[2004-02-21] MER Spirit - Inspecting the Trench

[2004-02-19] MER Opportunity - Inspecting the Trench

[2004-02-17] MER Opportunity - Trench Digging

[2004-02-12] MER Spirit - Views from the Drive

[2004-02-09] MER Opportunity - Dirty Little Spheres

[2004-02-08] MER Spirit - First Rock Grinding

[2004-02-06] MER Opportunity - First Drive away from Lander

[2004-02-04] MER Opportunity - Closeup of Dirt and Rocks

[2004-02-02] MER Opportunity - First Hi-Res 360° Color Panoramic

[2004-02-02] MER Opportunity - Stretching out the Arm

[2004-02-02] MER Opportunity - Instruments on the Arm

[2004-01-31] MER Opportunity - Off the Lander, Looking Back

[2004-01-26] MER Opportunity - First Days, Inside the Crater

[2004-01-25] MER Opportunity - Meridiani Planum, Just Landed!

[2004-01-23] MER Spirit - More on Spirit's Landing

[2004-01-21] MER Spirit - Empty Nest

[2004-01-20] MER Spirit - Probing the Adirondack Rock

[2004-01-16] MER Spirit - Martian Dirt ... in 3D!!!

[2004-01-16] MER Spirit - Feels Good to Flex The Arm

[2004-01-15] MER Spirit - First View Back from Off the Lander

[2004-01-12] MER Spirit - First 360° Color Panoramic

[2004-01-08] MER Spirit - Panoramic Color Postcard

[2004-01-07] MER Spirit - PanCam Terrain Anaglyph Image

[2004-01-06] MER Spirit - First Color Image

[2004-01-04] MER Spirit - Initial Navcam 3-D Views

[2004-01-04] MER Spirit - Initial Navcam Panoramic View

[2003-06-10] MER Spirit - RocketCam Launch Video

3b. Media Databases

3c. Miscellaneous

4. News, Status Updates, Discussion

4a. Official Sources (NASA, JPL, Whitehouse, etc.)

4b. News Sources

4c. Blogs

4d. Forums

5. Technical Information

5a. MER2004 Rovers and their Instruments

5b. MER2004 Launch, Voyage, Entry, Descent, and Landing

5c. MER2004 Landing Sites

5d. MER2004 General Mission Info

5e. Planet Mars

5f. Stereoscopic (3D) Photography and Images

6. Historical Information

6a. MER2004 Project Team

6b. Future and Past Mars Missions

6c. Mars (Ares), God of War

6d. Mars in our Culture

7. Humor, Entertainment

7a. Cartoons

7b. Real Life

7c. Miscellaneous

8. General

8a. About This Page

8b. Link To Us

8c. Contact Us

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