…………………………………………. 040106 NASA …………………………. Color Photo Most Detailed View of Mars Ever …………………………
………. A color mosaic from Spirit is the highest-resolution picture ever sent from Mars, more than three times as detailed as images from Mars Pathfinder in 1997…………………

…………………………………….. 040106 NASA ……………………………………….. NASA Brings Mars Online ………………………………
……. Thanks to the Internet, NASA can bring Mars into your living room, to a local Internet cafe, or anywhere else with access to the World Wide Web…………………

………………………………………. 040112 NASA ………………………………… Spirit's Surroundings Beckon in Color Panorama ………………………
………. The first 360-degree color view from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit presents a range of tempting targets from rocks nearby to hills on the horizon………………………

………………………………………….. 040115 NASA ………………………………… Spirit Puts Six Wheels on Mars ………………………………
………………. NASA's Spirit rover has left its lander and is ready to start exploring the red planet………………………………..

……………………………………. 040116 ESA …………………………….. The Gusev Crater landing site of NASA's Spirit rover………………………………………

……………………………………. 040116 ESA …………………………….. Today, ESA's Mars Express orbiter flies almost directly over the NASA Spirit rover at Gusev Crater at an altitude of about 300 kilometres. Mars Express uses four instruments to look down, while Spirit looks up ……………………………………………
…………. Agustin Chicarro, ESA's Project Scientist for Mars Express, said …………………………………….. "This is the first time that two space agencies are co-operating on another planet with two spacecraft. It is remarkable to know that one is in orbit and one is on the surface, both taking measurements to complement each other."……………………………………………………………

……………………………………. 040119 ESA …………………………….. Picture taken by the High Resolution Stereo Camera (HRSC) on board ESA's Mars Express orbiter on 14 January 2004 under the responsibility of the Principal Investigator Prof. Gerhard Neukum. It was processed by the Institute for Planetary Research of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), also involved in the development of the camera, and by the Institute of Geosciences of the Freie Universität Berlin……………………………………………… It shows a portion of a 1700 km long and 65 km wide swath which was taken in south-north direction across the Grand Canyon of Mars (Valles Marineris). It is the first image of this size that shows the surface of Mars in high resolution (12 metres per pixel), in colour and in 3D.

……………………………… 040120NASA ………………………………………….. Spirit Drives to 'Adirondack' ……………………………………………… NASA's Spirit rover has successfully driven to its first target on Mars, a football-sized rock that scientists have dubbed Adirondack………………………………..

………………………………….. 040120 NASA ………………………………………………… Spirit Flexes Its Arm ……………………………………….. For the first time, Spirit has reached out with its versatile robotic arm and examined a patch of fine-grained martian soil with a microscope at the end of the arm…………………………………………..

………………………………. 040122 NASA ………………………………. Latest on Spirit Communication Problem ……………………………………………… Flight-team engineers were encouraged this morning when Spirit sent a simple radio signal acknowledging that the rover had received a transmission from Earth. But, the team is still trying to diagnose the cause of earlier communications difficulties that have prevented any data being returned from Spirit since early Wednesday………………………………………………

…………………………….. 040123 NASA …………………- Rover Team Ready for Second Landing ………………………….. Opportunity is set to land at 12:05 a.m. EST Jan.25………………………………..

…………………………….. 040123 NASA ………………………………. Spirit Communicates With Earth …………………………………………… The flight team for NASA's Spirit received data from the rover for 20 minutes in a communication session early this morning……………………………………..

………………………………………….. 040123 ESA ……………………………. PR 06-2004. Mars Express, ESA's first mission to Mars, will reach its final orbit on 28 January. It has already been producing stunning results since its first instrument was switched on, on 5 January…………………….

…………………………… 040124 NASA …………………………. Spirit Upgraded As Twin Nears Mars …………………… Hours before NASA's Opportunity rover reaches Mars, engineers have found a way to communicate more reliably with its twin, Spirit………………………………

…………………………………. 040125 NASA …………………….. Opportunity Images Show Bizarre Landscape …………………………………………….. As if it's a whole different planet…………………………………

……………………………..040125 NASA ………………………….. NASA Hears From Opportunity Rover On Mars ……………………….. NASA's second Mars Exploration Rover successfully sent signals to Earth during its bouncy landing and after it came to rest on one of the three side petals of its four-sided lander……………………………………….

………………………….040129 NASA …………………………………………. Spirit Gets Back To Work ……………………………………… The Mars rover resumed taking pictures as engineers continue work on restoring its health. 01.29.04 - Opportunity Begins Standing Up …………………………… NASA's Opportunity rover has untucked its front wheels and latched its suspension system in place, key steps in preparing to drive off its lander and onto martian soil ………………………………………………..

……………………………………. 040129 ESA …………………………….. The Mars Express orbiter is checking its attitude and distance from Mars………………………………………………

……………………………………. 040129 ESA …………………………….. Radio communications between Rosetta and the ground will use a newly developed deep-space antenna which was built by ESA at New Norcia, near Perth in Western Australia……………………..

……………………………………. 040129 ESA …………………………….. Mars Express orbiter's main engine is firing for Mars Orbit Insertion (MOI)……………………………….

……………………………. 040131 NASA ……………………… Opportunity Rolls onto Martian Ground ………………………………………. NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity drove down a reinforced fabric ramp at the front of its lander platform and onto the soil of Mars' Meridiani Planum this morning ……………………………………………………..

…………………………. 040202 NASA ……………………………………… Opportunity and Spirit Reach Out …………………………………………….. Each of NASA's two Mars Exploration Rovers is using its versatile robotic arm for positioning tools at selected targets on the red planet. 02.01.04 - Mars Rover Spirit Restored to Health ………………………………………… NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is healthy again, the result of recovery work by mission engineers since the robot developed computer-memory and communications problems 10 days ago...............................................................

………………………. 040204 NASA …………………… Opportunity Sees Tiny Spheres in Martian Soil …………………………………… NASA's Opportunity has examined its first patch of soil in the small crater where it landed and found strikingly spherical pebbles among the mix of particles there ………………………………………………………..

…………….040205 NASA …………… Mars Exploration Rover Mission Status ……………….. NASA's Opportunity rover drove about 3.5 meters (11 feet) toward a rock outcrop in the wall of a small crater on Mars; its twin, Spirit, has successfully reformatted its flash memory ………………………………………………………………

(from http://www.esa.int/export/SPECIALS/Mars_Express/ and http://www.nasa.gov/vision/universe/solarsystem/MER_News_Collection_archive_1.html)