News tagged with rover

Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 31, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (8) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year.

Team Runs Operational Test to Prepare for Extracting Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 19, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers using test rovers on Earth to prepare for extracting the sand-trapped Spirit rover on Mars have added a new challenge to their preparations.

Scientists work to free Mars rover Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (11) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past several weeks, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory finished experimentation on methods to get the rover Spirit unstuck from its location near a plateau called Home Plate.

Second Test Rover Added to Driving Experiments

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 24, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

A second, lighter-weight test rover has entered the testing setup at JPL where rover team members are assessing strategy for getting Spirit out of soft soil where it is embedded on Mars.

Europe and Russia sign Mars exploration deal

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 19, 2009 | 4 / 5 (2) | 1

The European Space Agency (ESA) on Wednesday signed a deal with its Russian counterpart Roscosmos to cooperate on two Mars exploration projects, Russia's Interfax news agency reported.

Image: Spirit's View From 'Troy'

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 18, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 0

Today, Aug. 18, 2009, marks the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit's 2,000th sol, or Martian day, on the Red Planet.

Planned Rover Test to Run a Week or More

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week. This test will check whether favorable motion seen in earlier tests can be sustained ...

Meteorite Found on Mars Yields Clues About Planet's Past

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 10, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (11) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity is investigating a metallic meteorite the size of a large watermelon that is providing researchers more details about the Red Planet's environmental history. ...

Rover Confirms Meteorite on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 06, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 9

(PhysOrg.com) -- Composition measurements by NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity confirm that this rock on the Martian surface is an iron-nickel meteorite.

Possible Meteorite Imaged by Opportunity Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 03, 2009 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 3

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Opportunity rover has eyed an odd-shaped, dark rock, about 0.6 meters (2 feet) across on the surface of Mars, which may be a meteorite.

Free Spirit Testing Nearing Completion

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 31, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

Mars rover engineers at JPL are winding down testing of different escape maneuvers using a test rover in a sand box filled with soil to mimic the Martian surface. It is possible that in early August the first ...

Free Spirit: Longer Rover Tests Beginning

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 27, 2009 | 4.7 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars rover team members have begun a new phase of testing at JPL -- using longer-duration experiments -- in their preparations for driving Spirit again on Mars.

Mars Dust Devil Has Colorful Effect in Image Series

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 14, 2009 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have combined a trio of shots taken seconds apart through different colored filters to create a special-effects portrait of a moving dust devil on Mars.

Rover Tests Evaluating Crabwalk Moves

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 13, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

On firm ground, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers can make crablike moves by turning all four steerable wheels to the same side angle, then rotating the wheels either forward or backward.

Free Spirit: Rock Under the Belly

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jul 02, 2009 | 4 / 5 (4) | 1

Engineers placed a rock underneath the test rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., on July 1, 2009, to more closely simulate Spirit's predicament on Mars.