Sentences with phrase «curiosity rover»

During the show, visitors will follow Buzz and the Curiosity rover driver Erisa Hines of JPL as they lead visitors around areas of Mars where discoveries have been made.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) took the reigns on this project, creating a virtual environment in which users will be able to see what the Curiosity rover — and future rovers — see on the surface of the planet.

Unlike NASA's Curiosity rover, InSight is a lander.

Seeing the surface of Mars through the eyes of the Curiosity rover?

NASA's Curiosity rover is the coolest thing to happen on Mars since the rise of the Red Faction.

This image shows a close - up of track marks from the first test drive of NASA's Curiosity rover.

After a brief period of inactivity, NASA's Curiosity rover is back at work on the surface of Mars.

So far, the highlight of her PCMag career has been covering the Mars Curiosity rover landing from NASA's JPL in Pasadena, California.

This image from NASA's Curiosity rover looks south of the rover's landing site on Mars towards Mount Sharp.

The Curiosity rover has also seen rounded pebbles and other evidence of ancient streambeds.

They also used measurements from the Martian surface collected by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover.

So far we've come up empty - handed but a recent finding from the Curiosity rover has refueled scientists» hopes.

This week's question: How many kilograms of plutonium dioxide are carried by the Curiosity rover?

Gale crater, where the Curiosity rover landed in 2012, features extensive dune fields around the base of Mount Sharp, and the rover is now approaching some of them for the first time; their dark color makes them stand out starkly against the surrounding terrain.

Wiens is the principal investigator of the ChemCam, a laser spectroscopy instrument on NASA's Mars Curiosity rover that was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in collaboration with numerous French scientists.

The speakers include Beagle 2 Manager Mark Sims; U.K. Space Agency Chief Executive David Parker; Alvaro Giménez Cañete, ESA's director of science and robotic exploration; and John Bridges, a science team member on NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) missions.

This video shows the mast of NASA's Curiosity rover deploying in a pre-launch test.

Relive the nail - biting terror and joy as NASA's Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the evening of Aug. 5 PDT (morning of Aug. 6 EDT).

This video shows an engineering test for NASA's Curiosity rover, which took place during Assembly, Test and Launch Operations (ATLO), a project phase that occurs when all components are integrated, tested and launched.

Follow along on a tour of the landing scene of NASA's Curiosity rover in this video made up of images from two NASA orbiters.

After four years on Mars, Curiosity rover and her operations team are now seasoned explorers, anxious to climb to greater heights on Mount Sharp.

Transporting the Curiosity rover from its birthplace in Pasadena, California to Cape Canaveral, Florida, took countless hours and careful planning and preparation.

This sped - up movie from the Curiosity rover shows Phobos (the larger of Mars» two moons) passing in front of smaller Deimos.

Like manganese, another element that NASA's Curiosity rover discovered in surprising abundance on Mars, boron has a lot to say about the habitability of the Red Planet.

This color panorama shows a 360 - degree view of the landing site of NASA's Curiosity rover, including the highest part of Mount Sharp visible to the rover.

Curiosity rover found rock - ingredient stew on the planet Mars that could possibly sustain life.

This capability has also helped NASA select suitable landing sites for surface craft, such as the Phoenix lander and Curiosity rover.

The Curiosity rover has taught us a lot about the history of Mars and its potential to support life.

Animation shows NASA's Mars Curiosity rover touching a rock with an instrument on its arm, then stowing the arm and driving on.

This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows most of the high - resolution frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown.

This video steps viewers through a portion of the choreography needed to land NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars.

NASA's Curiosity rover takes a short breather on her trek to Glenelg to check out her arm instruments.

The artist's animation depicts how NASA's Curiosity rover will communicate with Earth during landing.

This simulation shows planned movements of the arm on NASA's Curiosity rover for round one of its robotic arm checkouts, expected to run on Sol 33 (Sept. 8, 2012).

The images were taken by the Mars Descent Imager on the mission's Curiosity rover while the rover was still suspended on a parachute, after the spacecraft had jettisoned the heat shield.

NASA and Microsoft have teamed up to create «Destination: Mars,» a guided tour of Mars using the same Hololens technology that helps scientists plan the Curiosity rover's activities.

The latest such findings come from NASA's Curiosity rover, which has been exploring the plains of Gale Crater on Mars for past signs of habitability ever since it landed there in August 2012.

Engineers and technicians have been planning for months and working for weeks on the big move for NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.

NASA's Curiosity rover gets its first taste of Mars and finds plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene, and olivine minerals.

This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows all the «thumbnail» (low - resolution) frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown.

The Curiosity rover bristles with multiple cameras and instruments, including Goddard's Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite.

A chapter of the layered geological history of Mars is laid bare in this postcard from NASA's Curiosity rover.

That's why NASA's Curiosity rover on Mars — and some other NASA spacecraft that explore the solar system — use something called «radioisotope power.»

This video (part 2 of a 4 part series) shows engineers testing a new parachute in the largest wind tunnel on Earth for the Curiosity rover.

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Curiosity rover went equipped with 17 cameras.

Curiosity rover obtains the first sample ever collected from the interior of a rock on another planet.

This movie begins with an expansive 360 - degree view from NASA's Curiosity rover, showing the surrounding terrain within Gale Crater, then zooms in on the rover's deck.

This animation shows how NASA's Curiosity rover communicates with Earth via two of NASA's Mars orbiters, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) and Odyssey, and the European Space Agency's Mars Express.

NASA's Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures.

The first mineralogy experiments by the Mars Science Lab on board the Curiosity rover confirm the presence of basaltic minerals similar to those found on Earth at Mauna Kea volcano in Hawaii, according to research results published online today by the journal Science.