[Tuesday, November 1, 2005] Opportunity is healthy and traversing around the northwest side of "Erebus Crater." The rover has driven on every sol possible, acquiring during and after each drive, and surveying the sky and horizon in the mornings with the panoramic camera.

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[Wednesday, November 2, 2005] The Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) on board ESA's Mars Express spacecraft is now back in operation after a malfunction, reported a few months ago.

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[Thursday, November 3, 2005] The three-sol plan for Opportunity's sols 627 to 629 (Oct. 29 to 31, 2005) began well, with a drive of 51 meters (164 feet) on the first sol.

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[Thursday, November 3, 2005] A Keck School scientist and his collaborators are the first to find methane-producing bacteria in arid desert soils, providing a springboard for future experiments on the distant planet.

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[Thursday, November 3, 2005] The HRC has two occulting masks that can block starlight from bright sources, and allow fainter objects nearby that are otherwise lost in the glare of the brighter object to be visible.

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[Thursday, November 3, 2005] Hubble images of the Sinus Meridiani region taken on October 28, 2005 show evidence of a regional dust storm. A comparable Hubble image taken on June 26, 2001 of the same region shows a storm-free environment.

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[Thursday, November 3, 2005] This mosaic of all six globes of Mars shows relative variations in the apparent angular size of Mars over the years. Mars was the closest in 2003 when it came within 35 million miles (56 million km) of Earth.

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[Thursday, November 3, 2005] NASA's Hubble Space Telescope snapped this picture of Mars on October 28, within a day of its closest approach to Earth on the night of October 29.

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[Monday, November 7, 2005] Sprit is healthy. The team operated in "restricted sols" from sol 647 to 654. Having weathered a recent dust storm, Opportunity is back to business. Energy levels are on the rise as the rover prepares for its next investigative campaign.

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[Wednesday, November 9, 2005] If a human with perfect vision donned a spacesuit and stepped onto the martian surface, the view would be as clear as this sweeping panorama taken by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit.

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[Thursday, November 10, 2005] University of Arkansas researchers have become the first scientists to show that liquid water could exist for considerable times on the surface of Mars.

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[Monday, November 14, 2005] The miracle on Mars continues. Spirit and Opportunity, which landed in January 2004 with a combined roving and lifetime warranty of 4,000 ft. and 120 days, are pushing toward four years of combined life and more than 6 mi. of total travel.

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[Tuesday, November 15, 2005] Spirit is healthy. The rover is out of restricted sols and has been making excellent progress. Opportunity is healthy and is observing outcrops of "Erebus Crater." The rover used the tools on its robotic arm to examine an outcrop area named "Olympia."

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[Tuesday, November 15, 2005] "We want to send robots ahead of astronauts to build a safe habitat that's already there when they arrive," said Stroupe. "Especially for Mars, if you have to wait six months for a rescue, you want to make sure it's safe when you go."

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[Thursday, November 17, 2005] The Mars Express radar, MARSIS, has now been deployed for more than four months. Here we report on the activities so far.

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[Thursday, November 17, 2005] The Mars Journal, a new peer-reviewed online open-access scholarly journal, has published its first two papers. The first paper is "The Mars Journal" by David A. Paige of the Dept. of Earth and Space Sciences, UCLA, and Chief Editor of The Mars Journal.

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[Friday, November 18, 2005] NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter successfully fired six engines for about 20 seconds today to adjust its flight path in advance of its March 10, 2006, arrival at the red planet.

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[Tuesday, November 22, 2005] Living on Mars is a risky activity that does not allow for mistakes, says one of the teams that participated in the project "Design of a Base on Mars".

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[Tuesday, November 22, 2005] Designed to last only 90 martian days (sols), the six-wheeled marvel the size of a golf cart has pursued a steady course of solar-driven geologic fieldwork, bringing back some 70,000 images and a new understanding of Mars as a potential habitat.

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[Monday, November 28, 2005] "The panel saw no evidence of an integrated resource utilization plan for use of the ISS in support of the Exploration Missions."

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[Tuesday, November 29, 2005] Life may have had a tough time getting started in the environment that left its mark in the rock layers examined by Opportunity. This analysis of the rover's discoveries reveals the challenges life may have faced in the harsh Martian environment.

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[Wednesday, November 30, 2005] For the first time in the history of planetary exploration, the MARSIS radar on board ESA's Mars Express has provided direct information about the deep subsurface of Mars.

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[Wednesday, November 30, 2005] Substantial quantities of liquid water must have been present in the early history of Mars. The findings of OMEGA, aboard Mars Express, have implications on Mars' climatic history and the question of its 'habitability' at some point in its history.

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