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Spirit Remains Silent at Troy Spirit Remains Silent at Troy	Opportunity in Good Health and Continues to Drive, Despite Lack of Downlink Due to Odyssey's safing event none of the planned Ultra-High Frequency (UHF) downlink passes for this period occurred.
Martian Dust Devil Whirls Into Opportunity's View In its six-and-a-half years on Mars, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity had never seen a dust devil before this month, despite some systematic searches in past years and the fact that its twin rover, Spirit, has seen dozens of dust devils.	Curiosity Rover Grows by Leaps and Bounds Talk about a growth-spurt. In one week, Curiosity grew by approximately 1 meter (3.5 feet) when spacecraft technicians and engineers attached the rover's neck and head (called the Remote Sensing Mast) to its body.
NASA Spacecraft Camera Yields Most Accurate Mars Map Ever A camera aboard NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has helped develop the most accurate global Martian map ever. Researchers and the public can access the map via several websites and explore and survey the entire surface of the Red Planet.	NASA and Microsoft Provide Mars 3-D Close Encounter NASA and Microsoft Research are bringing Mars to life with new features in the WorldWide Telescope software that provides viewers with a high-resolution 3-D map of the Red Planet.
NASA Instrument Will Identify Clues to Martian Past NASA's Curiosity rover, coming together for a late 2011 launch to Mars, has a newly installed component: a key onboard X-ray instrument for helping the mission achieve its goals.	Rocky mounds and a plateau on Mars When Mars Express set sail for the crater named after Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan, it found a windblown plateau and mysterious rocky mounds nearby.

Space

NASA's First Robotic Crew Member To Tweet From Space Station, Available For Interviews NASA's Robonaut 2 has no voice but is ready to tell you its story -- in 140 characters or less. The prototype robot will travel to space this fall to give NASA a deeper understanding of human-robotic interaction.	NASA Awards Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, Space Vehicle Mockup Facility Support Contract Nasa Awards Neutral Buoyancy Laboratory, Space Vehicle Mockup Facility Support Contract
NASA Awards Electrical Systems Engineering Services Contract NASA has awarded a sole-source interim contract for electrical systems engineering services to MEI Technologies in Houston.	NASA's Hibernating Mars Rover May Not Call Home NASA mission controllers have not heard from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit since March 22, and the rover is facing its toughest challenge yet ? trying to survive the harsh Martian winter.

Space Image of the Day

Tweetup at HQ
NASA astronaut TJ Creamer talks about his experience in space during a "Tweetup" at NASA Headquarters, Thursday, July 29, 2010, in Washington. Creamer, who spent 161 days living aboard the International Space Station as part of the Expedition 22/23 crew, set up the orbiting outpost's live Internet connection and posted updates about the mission to his Twitter account, sending the first live tweet from orbit. Image Credit: NASA/Paul E. Alers

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