Sentences with phrase «laboratory rover»

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity has detected further evidence that the Red Planet once could have supported life.

The Mars Science Laboratory rover trolling the dusty plains of the Red Planet has spotted evidence that provides one more bit of proof that Mars was once a wet world.

Design and fabrication of lenses for the color science cameras aboard the Mars Science Laboratory rover F. T. Ghaemi Optical Engineering 48 (10), 103002, doi: 10.1117 / 1.3251343, 29 October 2009.

So far, the heftiest payload NASA has landed on Mars is the one - ton Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory rover, which touched down in August 2012 via parachutes and an innovative, rocket - powered sky crane.

MSSS provided four science cameras for JPL's Mars Science Laboratory rover mission, which will also launch in 2011.

The following mission, the Mars Science Laboratory rover, will incorporate many lessons from the current rovers, said that project's manager, Richard Cook of JPL.

MSSS is currently completing a camera for the Juno mission to Jupiter (2011) and a second pair of cameras for the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

Recent in - situ measurements at the Martian surface by the RAD instrument (Hassler et al. 2012) on board the Mars Science Laboratory rover agree relatively well with the quiet - time GCR predictions made by these computational modelling efforts (Hassler et al. 2014; Kim et al. 2014; Gronoff et al. 2015).

At the direction of NASA, Malin Space Science Systems (MSSS) has halted work on the zoom Mastcams it had hoped could replace the fixed - focal - length (FFL) systems now installed on «Curiosity,» the Mars Science Laboratory rover.

MSSS has produced visible and ultraviolet cameras for the Mars Global Surveyor (1996), Mars Climate Orbiter (1998), Mars Polar Lander (1999), Mars Odyssey (2001), Cosmos 1 (2005), Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2005), Mars Scout Phoenix (2007), Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (2009), a classified U.S. spacecraft, and the Mars Science Laboratory rover (2011).

NASA is now turning its communications assets toward preparation for the agency's next mission to the Red Planet, set to launch in November — the Mars Science Laboratory rover, Curiosity.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity appears as a bluish dot near the lower right corner of this enhanced - color view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Steele says the results lay the groundwork for interpreting future chemical studies of the Martian surface, such as experiments to be carried out by the Mars Science Laboratory rover mission, scheduled to launch in fall 2009.

Set to launch in 2009, the NASA / Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mars Science Laboratory rover will carry a laser tool for zapping rocks and analyzing their debris composition.

Not exact matches

Even NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory team communicates via Slack while maneuvering the Mars Curiosity rover.

Get a behind the scenes look a the tension, anticipation and exhilaration experienced by scientists and engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. during the Curiosity rover's harrowing descent through the Martian atmosphere — known as «Seven Minutes of Terror.»

The most likely strategy for returning samples stored on the 2020 rover will involve two more spacecraft heading to Mars, says Charles Whetsel of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

JPL manages NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Project for NASA's Science Mission Directorate at the agency's headquarters in Washington, and built the project's Curiosity rover.

«Along the rover's path we have seen some beautiful rocks with large, bright crystals, quite unexpected on Mars» said Roger Wiens of Los Alamos National Laboratory, lead scientist on the ChemCam instrument.

Operators may even perform a dry run with a duplicate rover on a sandy replica of the planet's surface in the Mars Yard at Curiosity's command center, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

822 Martian days after landing, NASA's Curiosity rover, carrying the Mars Science Laboratory, continues on its extraordinary journey across landscapes that are both utterly alien, and remarkably familiar.

So Curiosity also has holes in its wheels, which spell out «JPL» (for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the rover was built and is operated) in Morse code.

«That's troubling,» says rover project manager John Callas of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

So NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, also known as the rover Curiosity, will not be looking for life on Mars (12...

TEST FLIGHT The Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft (illustrated) carried the Curiosity rover to Mars.

We look at the state of the rovers currently on Mars, the big accidental discovery by the Spirit rover, and the next - generation device slated to join them in 2010, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover.

Interviews with Cornell's Melissa Rice, the payload downlink lead for the rover cameras, and the Jet Propulsion Lab's Michelle Viotti, about the Mars Science Laboratory Rover.

2004: Spirit and Opportunity Built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the remote - controlled rovers have been exploring the Martian surface for more than a year.

Three years ago he found it on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, then under assembly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA's next Mars rover is highly sensitive to the smelly chemical, which could betray the presence of Martian microbes, says Steven Vance of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

At the northern edge of the study site, José Verdasca and Eduardo Sebastián Martínez of the Centro de Astrobiología, a public research laboratory in Madrid, are testing dust devil detection equipment they have designed to fly on NASA's next Mars mission — a car - size ranging rover called Curiosity, to be launched in fall 2011.

Steve Squyres oversees the science operations of both rovers and a team of 170 researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

«The rover has made this detection of simple organic compounds,» says project scientist John Grotzinger of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.

Many of the experiments carried out by the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission's Curiosity rover were painstakingly planned by NASA scientists more than a decade ago.

That could contribute to problems with the Mars Science Laboratory, a rover mission set for launch in 2009 that was spared the axe last month despite running $ 300 million over budget.

NASA's $ 2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission is slated to launch in late November, and will drop a car - size rover named Curiosity at the Gale crater.

Tantalizingly, Diana Blaney of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a member of the Mars Exploration Rover team, announced at the September meeting that a rock found by the Spirit rover, christened Independence, is claylike.

It's three days before the Curiosity rover is set to land on Mars, and the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory is cheerfully making tracks between a NASA social media event and his office on JPL's campus.

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of Caltech in Pasadena, California, built the rover and manages the Curiosity mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington.

With only four functioning wheels, the extrication process has been hindered, said John Callas, project manager for Spirit and its twin rover, Opportunity, at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Opportunity soldiers gamely on from its landing site halfway around the planet.)

NASA will postpone the launch of its over-budget Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover by two years, to 2011.

After engineers run a months - long setup of the Mars Science Laboratory, now parked in a crater, scientists will take the rover on a nearly two - year journey that includes a visit to a six - kilometer - high mountain

Mars Pathfinder launches in 1996 Starting this Saturday, a 24 day window of opportunity opens for the launch of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, now also known as the Curiosity rover.

The Mars 2020 rover will be equipped with an instrument called «SuperCam,» developed by Los Alamos and an instrument called SHERLOC, which was developed by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory with significant participation by Los Alamos.

The boron was identified by the rover's laser - shooting ChemCam (Chemistry and Camera) instrument, which was developed at Los Alamos National Laboratory in conjunction with the French space agency.

To save the stranded rover, NASA ran tests on a model of the rover in a simulated Martian «sandbox» at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

MSSS also built and operates the rover's Mastcams and Mars Descent Imager; this work is performed under contract to NASA through the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology.

«The future rover development and design will be based on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) architecture that successfully carried the Curiosity rover to the Martian surface this summer,» NASA said in a statement.

«The next rover will be much bigger to carry the instruments necessary for meeting its goals, but it would be laughable to consider doing Mars Science Laboratory without the experience gained from doing the Mars Exploration Rovers,» he said.