we first put a rover on mars on march 9, 1974.
when did we first put a rover on mars?
march 9, 1974
the probes landed in january 2004 in widely separated equatorial locations on mars.on january 21, 2004, the deep space network lost contact with "spirit", for reasons originally thought to be related to a thunderstorm over australia. the rover transmitted a message with no data, but later that day missed another communications session with the mars global surveyor. the next day, jpl received a beep from the rover, indicating that it was in fault mode. on january 23, the flight team succeeded in making the rover send. the fault was believed to have been caused by an error in the rover's flash memory subsystem. the rover did not perform any scientific activities for ten days, while engineers updated its software and ran tests. the problem was corrected by reformatting "spirit" flash memory and using a software patch to avoid memory overload; "opportunity" was also upgraded with the patch as a precaution. "spirit" returned to full scientific operations by february 5.
mars exploration rover
oregon state university mars rover





























the osu mars rover is a student-organized project, which designs, builds, and tests a remotely operated terrestrial rover every year. the rover competes in the university rover challenge (urc), hosted by the mars society. the team is composed of students in electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, software engineering, and science at oregon state university.





























section::::awards.





























bullet::::- first place, 2008 university rover challenge - mars rover 1





























bullet::::- fourth place, 2009 university rover challenge - mars rover 2





























bullet::::- first place, 2010 university rover challenge - mars rover 3.0
oregon state university mars rover