[Saturday, January 01, 2005] Opportunity continues to survey the crash site of its heat shield and other associated hardware. In addition to using its navcam, pancam, and hazard cams, it has also used its microscopic imager.

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[Sunday, January 02, 2005] Scientists viewed a rock like none seen before on Mars when NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit brushed the surface and took magnified images of this rock dubbed "Wishstone."

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[Monday, January 03, 2005] These pictures show the complete rover track from the lander to the Columbia Hills. Spirit's rover track shows up nicely from orbit, because the surfaces disrupted and churned by the wheels are darker than the surrounding, dust-coated plain.

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[Monday, January 03, 2005] NASA lit a birthday candle today for its twin Mars Exploration Rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. The Spirit rover begins its second year on Mars investigating puzzling rocks unlike any found earlier.

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[Thursday, January 06, 2005] A photo opportunity for media will be held 9 a.m. MT, Friday, Jan. 7, in the clean room with the MRO spacecraft at Lockheed Martin’s Waterton Facility near Denver.

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[Friday, January 07, 2005] The path of Spirit through the rover's 354th martian day, or sol (Dec. 31, 2004), plus some future travel options, are indicated on this map of the "Husband Hill" region of the "Columbia Hills" within Mars' Gusev Crater.

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[Friday, January 07, 2005] Even as the Spirit and Opportunity rovers complete a year of successful operation on Mars, the next major step in Mars Exploration is taking shape with preparation of NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter for launch in just seven months.

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[Friday, January 14, 2005] "One year after President Bush visited NASA Headquarters on January 14, 2004 and proposed with the Vision for Space Exploration bold new goals for our nation's space program, I'm pleased to report that our journey to the cosmos is well underway."

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[Saturday, January 15, 2005] On sol 345, Opportunity acquired additional navigation-camera images of the heat shield to support a future re-approach for additional microscopic imaging. It then turned and drove north toward "Heat Shield Rock," which has pits in its surface.

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[Monday, January 17, 2005] This report from NASA JPL describes the previous month's activites of the Spirt and Opportunity Mars Exploration Rovers.

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[Tuesday, January 18, 2005] According to New Scientist Magazine, NASA Mars Rover Principal Investigator Steve Squyres confirmed today that Opportunity has indeed identified a metallic meteorite on the surface of Mars

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[Wednesday, January 19, 2005] NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity has found an iron meteorite, the first meteorite of any type ever identified on another planet.

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[Friday, January 21, 2005] JPL, operating under a prime contract with NASA, seeks responses to an electronic Request for Proposal (RFP) for a Variable Tilt Terrain Platform (VTTP) for the Mars Science Laboratory Touchdown Dynamics Testbed.

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[Monday, January 24, 2005] This is a sub-frame of MOC image R16-02188. It was acquired on 26 April 2004, during Opportunity's 91st sol--the first day of the MER-B Extended Mission.

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[Friday, January 28, 2005] To gain a better understanding of the properties and behaviors of lunar and martian environments, NASA KSC is hosting the "Granular Materials in Lunar and Martian Exploration" workshop Feb. 2 and 3 at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

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[Friday, January 28, 2005] "We detected light emissions in the nightside Martian atmosphere with the SPICAM ultraviolet (UV) spectrometer on board Mars Express."

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[Saturday, January 29, 2005] Spirit is healthy, but reduced sunlight has been reaching the rover through the atmosphere due to a possible dust storm. After spending 25 sols at the heat shield and nearby meteorite, Opportunity has started a long migration south.

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