News tagged with rover

One Mars Rover Sees a Distant Goal; The Other Takes a New Route

Mar 18, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (7) | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- On a plain that stretches for miles in every direction, the panoramic camera on NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has caught a first glimpse on the horizon of the uplifted rim of the big crater ...

NASA's Mars Rover Spirit Faces Circuitous Route

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 05, 2009 | 4.4 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Loose soil piled against the northern edge of a low plateau called "Home Plate" has blocked NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit from taking the shortest route toward its southward destinations ...

Spirit Gets Energy Boost from Cleaner Solar Panels

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 12, 2009 | 5 / 5 (5) | 6

(PhysOrg.com) -- A small but important uptick in electrical output from the solar panels on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit this month indicates a beneficial Martian wind has blown away some of the dust ...

Researchers Test Steep-Terrain Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 05, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel ...

Spirit Resumes Driving

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Feb 03, 2009 | 5 / 5 (4) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit resumed driving Saturday after engineers gained confidence from diagnostic activities earlier in the week evaluating how well the rover senses its orientation.

Mars Technology Helps Create Inauguration Mega-picture

Technology / Hi Tech

Feb 03, 2009 | 4 / 5 (1) | 0

When a new president is inaugurated, it's a big event, and it calls for a big picture. To be precise, 1,474 megapixels.

Mars Rover Team Diagnosing Unexpected Behavior

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jan 28, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (7) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit plans diagnostic tests this week after Spirit did not report some of its weekend activities, including a request to determine its orientation ...

Socializing on Mars

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jan 15, 2009 | 2 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After five groundbreaking years exploring the Red Planet, the communications engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pretty much know what they are getting when another downlink from ...

How Martian winds make rocks walk

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Jan 08, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 8

Rocks on Mars are on the move, rolling into the wind and forming organized patterns, according to new research.

NASA Invites Students to Name New Mars Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 18, 2008 | 3.2 / 5 (5) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is looking for the right stuff, or in this case, the right name for the next Mars rover. NASA, in cooperation with Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures' movie WALL-E from Pixar Animation ...

Mars Rover Team Sets Low-Power Plan for NASA's Spirit

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 17, 2008 | 5 / 5 (4) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- After assessing data received from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit on Thursday, mission controllers laid out plans for the rover to conserve its modest energy during the next few weeks.

Controllers Cheer as Data Arrive from NASA's Spirit Rover

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 13, 2008 | 4.7 / 5 (9) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit communicated via the Mars Odyssey orbiter today right at the time when ground controllers had told it to, prompting shouts of "She's talking!" among the ...

NASA Tests Rover Concepts in Arizona

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 27, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's newest lunar rover prototype has now gone farther than it ever has before.

Mars rover Opportunity sets out on its greatest journey yet

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 25, 2008 | 4.8 / 5 (5) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The Mars rover Opportunity, which has just crawled out of the 800-meter-wide (875 yards) Victoria Crater is setting out on the longest journey of its life. It will take the rover roughly two ...