News tagged with rover
Image: Spirit's View From 'Troy'
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 18, 2009 |
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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 |
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(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 |
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(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 |
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(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 |
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(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 |
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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 |
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(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 |
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(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 |
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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 |
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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.
Mars Rover Yielding New Clues While Lodged in Martian Soil
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history.
Spirit Takes a Peek at Her Belly
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A new image of Spirit's underbelly is helping engineers assess the rover's current state and plan her escape from soft soil. The panoramic mosaic of multiple images was taken by the microscopic ...
Opportunity Rover Sees Variable Environmental History at Martian Victoria Crater
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 21, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of NASA's two Mars rovers has recorded a compelling saga of environmental changes that occurred over billions of years at a Martian crater.
Mars and Earth Activities Aim to Get Spirit Rolling Again
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 19, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's rover project team is using the Spirit rover and other spacecraft at Mars to begin developing the best maneuvers for extracting Spirit from the soft Martian ground where it has become ...
Spirit rover's wheels stuck in soft Martian dirt
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 12, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ...
