[Friday, April 1, 2005] After a very busy weekend, Spirit packed up the robotic arm and headed away from an area dubbed "Paso Robles." Spirit should be able to make good progress towards the "Husband Hill" summit in the upcoming sols.

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[Sunday, April 3, 2005] NASA's Space Shuttle family recently gathered for a big meeting. Their task: to look at current human space flight capabilities and how they would need to be changed or "transformed" in the coming years to implement the President's new space policy.

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[Monday, April 4, 2005] To help a NASA rover hunt for life on Mars, scientists are writing a chemical guidebook to aid the search for extraterrestrial life. They're recording the types of subtle chemical changes that Martian microbes may have left on the planet's rocks.

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[Monday, April 4, 2005] NASA, JPL, and Lockheed Martin mark another significant milestone in the Mars space exploration program as .Lockheed Martin delivered the vehicle that will launch the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission to Mars. 

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[Monday, April 4, 2005] Injecting synthetic "super" greenhouse gases into the Martian atmosphere could raise the planet's temperature enough to melt its polar ice caps and create conditions suitable for sustaining biological life.

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[Tuesday, April 5, 2005] Spirit is heading toward the summit of "Husband Hill." The rover has been making slow progress recently due to slippage on new, sandy terrain, but it is persevering to reach the target.

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[Tuesday, April 5, 2005] NASA has approved up to 18 more months of operations for Spirit and Opportunity, the twin Mars rovers that have already surprised engineers and scientists by continuing active exploration for more than 14 months.

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[Friday, April 8, 2005] European space scientists have strongly recommended a mission equipped with a Rover as the next scientific mission to Mars as part of the European Space Agency's Aurora programme of planetary exploration.

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[Monday, April 11, 2005] Spirit continues slipping in sandy terrain but forges ahead using crafty techniques such as switchbacking and creating a zigzag course.

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[Tuesday, April 12, 2005] The FPEIS addresses the potential environmental impacts associated with continuing the preparations for and implementing the Mars Exploration Program.

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[Wednesday, April 13, 2005] NASA/LaRC plans to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for a requirement to study system concepts for developing an advanced supersonic parachute system for future Mars landers.

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[Wednesday, April 13, 2005] Editor's note: Has Opportunity found a very, very small crater?

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[Thursday, April 14, 2005] Opportunity drove to "Viking Crater," then continued to "Voyager Crater." The rover took panoramas of each crater. While this was happening on the surface, the Mars Odyssey orbiter had gone into safe mode.

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[Thursday, April 14, 2005] NASA)intends to release an Announcement of Opportunity (AO) no earlier than May 1, 2005, for a MTO Science Investigation.  

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[Tuesday, April 19, 2005] A Canadian researcher has calculated the location of Mars' ancient poles, based upon the location of five giant impact basins on the planet's surface.

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[Wednesday, April 20, 2005] Researchers say a bizarre group of microbes found living inside rocks in an inhospitable geothermal environment at Yellowstone National Park could provide new clues about ancient life on Earth and help steer the hunt for evidence of life on Mars.

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[Friday, April 22, 2005] Spirit has had a great week - it completed some soil studies, taken images, done a little driving, and captured a dust devil image with its panoramic camera. Late in the week, Spirit drove over to a piece of outcrop called "Methuselah."

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[Friday, April 22, 2005] NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is taking movies of dust devils -- whirlwinds carrying dust -- scooting across a plain on Mars.

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[Friday, April 29, 2005] From a ridgeline vantage point overlooking slopes, valleys and plains, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has returned its latest color panorama of the martian landscape.

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[Friday, April 29, 2005] This false-color rendering shows the scene acquired by NASA's Spirit rover on martian day, or sol, 454 (April 13, 2005), using its panoramic camera filters at 750-, 530-, and 430-nanometer wavelengths.

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[Friday, April 29, 2005] These two craters, each smaller than a foot in diameter and less than one-half inch deep, were found intact by NASA's Mars rover Opportunity.

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[Friday, April 29, 2005] Following green light for the deployment of ESA's Mars Express radar, given in February this year, the radar booms are now planned to be deployed in the first half of May.

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