Spacecraft · Mars Exploration Rover (MER-A)
Spirit
- Agency
- NASA
- Launched
- 2003
- Type
- rover
- Status
- completed (2010)
NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
Overview
Scientific overview
Spirit is a mars exploration rover (mer-a), operated by NASA, launched in 2003.
Mission
- Agency
- NASA
- Launched
- 2003
- Type
- rover
- Status
- completed (2010)
Gallery
Von Braun Mound in Spirit Drive Direction
NASA Mars Exploration Rover Spirit used its navigation camera to capture this view of the terrain toward the southeast from the location Spirit reached on the 1,871st Martian day, or sol, of the rover mission on Mars Ap…
2009
NASA/JPL-Caltech · NASA media (public domain)
Observation
How this was captured
- Source
- NASA
- Observation date
- 2005-03-03
Targets & destinations
Sources
The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.
- NASANational Aeronautics and Space Administration
Mission data, planetary science, space telescopes, and public-domain imagery.
Most NASA-produced imagery is in the public domain; individual items are checked for usage terms before publication.
- NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics
Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.