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Hayabusa (MUSES-C)

Hooray for Hayabusa!

According to JAXA (the Japanese space agency), poor little Hayabusa has successfully restarted its ion engine and has resumed powered flight today. Hooray! This is good news for Hayabusa's eventual return to Earth.

Mars Exploration Rover

Spirit update: It keeps going

There have been a couple more releases from JPL in recent days updating the slightly worrisome announcement about Spirit that came out on January 28.

Olympus Mons

New Google Mars

Google Earth's latest edition was just released and guess what? It has a Mars setting!

Mars from Hubble, January 2008

A pretty new Hubble image of Mars

A set of Mars image data taken by the Hubble Space Telescope a year ago was just released to Hubble's data archive. It was captured by Hubble's Wide Field and Planetary Camera 2 on January 30, 2008 when Mars was about 115 million kilometers from Earth.

Solar system montage with eight planets

Mars Exploration Rovers Update: Spirit and Opportunity Begin Sixth Year of Exploration

The Mars Exploration Rover mission crossed the finish line of another major milestone this month, marking its fifth anniversary of exploring the Red Planet. As team members celebrated and shared stories in events all around Los Angeles, Spirit and Opportunity kept on roving, bucking up under the inevitable pains of growing older. They're heading now for their next major destinations.

Dawn in survey orbit at Ceres

Dawn Journal: Just Missing the Bull's Eye at Mars

Dawn continues on course for its pas de deux with Mars on February 17. The planet's gravity will gracefully assist the spacecraft on its way to rendezvous with its intended celestial partners Vesta and Ceres in the more distant asteroid belt.

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