Spirit was operational on Mars for 2208 sols or 3.3 Martian years (2269 days; 6 years, 77 days). It was one of two rovers of NASA 's Mars Exploration Rover Mission managed by the Jet …

Dec 19, 2024 · What was Spirit? NASA's Spirit rover—and its twin, Opportunity—studied the history of climate and water at sites on Mars where conditions may once have been favorable …

Nov 19, 2024 · Spirit is one of a suite of spacecraft in NASA's second wave of Mars exploration. The agency sent several missions to Mars in the 1960s and 1970s but paused after the Viking …

The twin Mars Exploration Rovers (MER), Spirit and Opportunity, were robot field geologists. They confirmed liquid water once flowed across the Martian surface. Both long outlasted their …

Oct 15, 2025 · The Spirit Rover, also known as MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover-A), was one of two robotic rovers sent to Mars by NASA as part of the Mars Exploration Rover mission. It was …

Scientists on Earth strove for months to free the rover, sending it commands to move in various directions, but without success, and in January 2010 NASA decided that Spirit would work …

Jun 10, 2003 · Among her myriad discoveries, Spirit found evidence that Mars was once much wetter than it is today and helped scientists better understand the Martian wind. In May 2009, …

Feb 9, 2019 · Spirit took off from Cape Canaveral on June 10, 2003, landed on Mars on January 4, 2004, and was finally declared done exploring Mars on May 25, 2011. Its last contact was …

Launched on June 10, 2003, Spirit landed on Mars' Meridiani Planum on January 4, 2004, three weeks before its twin Opportunity (MER-B), also part of NASA 's Mars Exploration Rover …

Aug 6, 2004 · Abstract The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit and its Athena science payload have been used to investigate a landing site in Gusev crater. Gusev is hypothesized to be the site of …