[Friday, October 01, 2004] Spirit has successfully transitioned back to normal operations from conjunction operations, when Mars and Earth were on opposite sides of the Sun.

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[Tuesday, October 05, 2004] Engineers on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover team are investigating possible causes and remedies for a problem affecting the steering on Spirit.

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[Thursday, October 07, 2004] Epsom-like salts believed to be common on Mars may be a major source of water there. In a report in this week's Nature, scientists also speculate that the salts will provide a chemical record of water on the Red Planet.

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[Thursday, October 07, 2004] This image was taken by Rover Opportunity's Navcam inside Endeavour Crater, Meridiani, Mars on 6 October 2004.

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[Friday, October 08, 2004] Spirit and Opportunity have been exploring Mars about three times as long as originally scheduled. The more they look, the more evidence of past liquid water on Mars these robots discover.

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[Friday, October 08, 2004] Planning for the Medium-Term Plan of October 2004 is now finished. Due to the favourable illumination conditions and latitudes with highly valuable targets, a major share of the scientific data is being given to the imaging instruments.

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[Sunday, October 10, 2004] This stunning image mosaic of the "Columbia Hills" is the first 360-degree panorama taken since the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit arrived at the hills over a month ago.

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[Thursday, October 14, 2004] A new means of propelling spacecraft being developed at the University of Washington could dramatically cut the time needed for astronauts to travel to and from Mars and could make humans a permanent fixture in space.

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[Monday, October 18, 2004] Technologies from space provide new solutions for food handling on Earth. In exchange travellers in space will get gourmet menus from Earth to cheer them up during long space missions, including recipes for travellers to Mars.

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[Tuesday, October 19, 2004] NASA is moving The Vision for Space Exploration from concept to reality. Working with the best in the aerospace industry, NASA is already exploring and refining the concepts that will help America return to the Moon, to Mars, and beyond.

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[Friday, October 22, 2004] A problem that affects the steering on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has recurred after disappearing for nearly two weeks.

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[Monday, October 25, 2004] Scientists at Yale University have devised a method to precisely date the timing and temperature of a meteorite impact on Mars that led to ejection of a piece of the planet into space and its eventual impact on Earth.

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[Thursday, October 28, 2004] University of Michigan Professor Sushil Atreya suggests that methane gas detected on Mars is the clearest indicator yet that there could be life there.

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[Thursday, October 28, 2004] A range of facts have revealed the existence of frozen water ice in the top meters of high latitudes near-surface of both martian hemispheres. However, its origin was still unexplained.

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[Thursday, October 28, 2004] Strings of depressions dotting the Martian landscape indicate that seismic activity - marsquakes - may still be reshaping the surface of the planet, according to Dr. David Ferrill of Southwest Research Institute.

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[Friday, October 29, 2004] With automatic systems in control, astronauts would face the challenge of living in a confined space with not much to do for an extremely long period. "Might as well sleep it off!"

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[Friday, October 29, 2004] A view of the sundial-like calibration target on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit, with a bit of martian terrain in the background, is the 50,000th image from the twin rovers that have been exploring Mars since January.

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[Sunday, October 31, 2004] The Antarctic meteorite hunters knew they'd found something good when they spotted the crusty black rock on a Miller Range ice field last year."The field notes said, 'this is very, very, very sexy.' Three verys," said Ralph Harvey, head of ANSMET.

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