NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity. These rovers were ...

Justin Holcomb and colleagues argue that Mars' remnants, like crashed landers and rover tracks, are valuable heritage, not ...

After more than 15 years on the surface of Mars, NASA’s Opportunity Rover came to a tragic end. In this video, we explore the ...

If you answered, "NASA's Spirit Rover," pat yourself on the back. Spirit, along with its twin rover Opportunity, was only supposed to provide three months of Martian exploration. Incredibly ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

This has happened before: The Mars rover Spirit in 2010 got stuck in soft sand one day and never escaped. Like its predecessor and nearly identical twin Curiosity, which is still exploring a ...

Getting the rover moving is still the first priority, NASA stated. In the past couple weeks, Spirit’s right-front wheel, which had stopped operating in March 2006, showed signs of life this week by ...

On January 3, 2004, NASA's Spirit rover landed on Mars! Also known as Mars Exploration Rover 2, this was the first of NASA's twin rovers to land on the Red Planet. The other was named Opportunity.