NASA’s Spirit rover ended its mission trapped in Martian soil, frozen in place after more than 2,208 sols on Mars. But its last images and earlier accidental discoveries left behind something far more ...

NASA’s Spirit rover was built for 90 days, but it survived 2,208 Martian sols before going silent in 2010. Its most shocking clue came when a broken wheel scraped through red soil and exposed a bright ...

NASA’s Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers landed on the Red Planet on Jan. 3 and 24, 2004, respectively. This image shows a view Opportunity captured of its own shadow on July 26 of that year, the ...

NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its panoramic camera to take the images combined into this mosaic view of the rover. The downward-looking view omits the mast on which the camera is mounted.