Sentences with phrase «opportunity rover»

It highlights the area where the tiny Mars Pathfinder rover landed in 1997, and where the Opportunity rover landed in 2004.

Operating long past its original mission of 90 Martian solar days — also known as «sols» — NASA's Opportunity rover has survived another passage through the deepest part of the Martian winter.

In the first episode of a new JPL video series, we celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Opportunity rover, show you a recent panoramic view from the Curiosity rover, look at ice deposits spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and check out the latest test on the InSight lander, heading to the Red Planet in May 2018.

For instance, the Opportunity rover is now perched inside the rim of Victoria Crater, a feature 800 meters across and well over 70 meters deep that was excavated by a meteor impact millions of years ago.

Opportunity rover localication and topographic mapping at the landing site of Meridiani Planum, Mars R. Li, R. E. Arvidson, K. Di, M. Golombek, J. Guinn, A. Johnson, M. Maimone, L. H. Matthies, M. Malin, T. Parker, S. W. Squyres, and W. A. Watters Journal of Geophysical Research 112, E02S90, doi: 10.1029 / 2006JE002776, 14 February 2007.

Pancam multispectral imaging results from the Opportunity rover at Meridiani Planum J. F. Bell III, S. W. Squyres, R. E. Arvidson, H. M. Arneson, D. Bass, W. Calvin, W. H. Farrand, W. Goetz, M. Golombek, R. Greeley, J. Grotzinger, E. Guinness, A. G. Hayes, M. Y. H. Hubbard, K. E. Herkenhoff, M. J. Johnson, J. R. Johnson, J. Joseph, K. M. Kinch, M. T. Lemmon, R. Li, M. B. Madsen, J. N. Maki, M. Malin, E. McCartney, S. McLennan, H. Y. McSween Jr., D. W. Ming, R. V. Morris, E. Z. Noe Dobrea, T. J. Parker, J. Proton, J. W. Rice Jr., F. Seelos, J. M. Soderblom, L. A. Soderblom, J. N. Sohl - Dickstein, R. J. Sullivan, C. M. Weitz, and M. J. Wolff Science 306, 1703 — 1709, doi: 10.1126 / science.1105245, 3 December 2004.

It should be noted however that the Opportunity rover, which landed in 2004, is also still going strong after about 14 years!

A shot of the Lunokhod 2 Crater taken from the Opportunity rover (Image: NASA / JPL - Caltech / Cornell / Arizona State Univ..)

NASA's Mars Opportunity rover recently celebrated its 11th anniversary on the Martian surface, marking the milestone with a stunning panoramic that doubles as a moving tribute to the victims of the 9/11 terrorist attack in New York.

For reference, you can check out this panorama of 817 stitched images taken by the Opportunity rover from December 2011 to May 2012.

According to NASA, as of March 16, the Mars Opportunity rover has covered 26.219 mi (42.195 km) in the leisurely time of about 11 years and two months.

NASA's Mars Opportunity rover has captured a rare image of a Martian dust devil traveling across the surface of the Red Planet.

Above, a digital model of the Opportunity rover was added to a real image of the inside of Endurance Crater on Mars taken earlier by Opportunity itself.

A strange picture of odd, spherical rock formations on Mars from NASA's Opportunity rover has scientists scratching their heads over what exactly they're looking at.

The Opportunity rover is still going strong on Mars since landing in 2004, and supporters were understandably dismayed that it might end soon, not because of technical problems, but rather budget problems.

As well as Europa, the new NASA budget also provides the necessary funding to continue both the Opportunity rover mission on Mars and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter at the Moon, both of which had been zeroed out in the President's earlier budget proposal.

Meanwhile, Spirit's twin, the Opportunity rover, continues its 19 - kilometer journey to Endeavour Crater on the opposite side of planet.

The study, published in the journal Geology, examined an 18 - square - mile chloride salt deposit (roughly the size of the city of Boulder) in the planet's Meridiani region near the Mars Opportunity rover's landing site.

A bumper crop of «blueberries» has been found around the rim of Mars's Victoria Crater by NASA's Opportunity rover.

Among now operating planetary missions, the agency expects to zero out the Mars Opportunity rover, the Mars Odyssey orbiter, and the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Geochemist Nicholas Tosca of Harvard University and his colleagues calculated the salinity of long - gone waters from the composition of the salts left behind both at Meridiani Planum, where the Opportunity rover found the remains of salty groundwater, and at Gusev crater, where Spirit found volcano - related hydrothermal deposits.

NASA's Opportunity rover, exploring Mars since 2004, also recently discovered high manganese deposits thousands of miles from Curiosity.

* Correction, 17 December, 12:07 p.m.: This item originally contained a picture of the Opportunity rover.

Rhawn Joseph of San Jose, California, filed the suit after an unusual object showed up in front of NASA's Opportunity rover.

In 2004, iron - rich minerals and sulphate salts observed by NASA's Opportunity rover suggested an explanation: any oceans were too acidic for carbonates to form.

* Correction, 1:08 p.m., 19 February: The text has been changed to reflect that the data was collected by the Phoenix lander, not the Opportunity rover.

Ten years into a mission that was originally going to only last a few months, NASA's Opportunity rover continues to turn up surprises on Mars.

Within this crater the Opportunity rover — just slightly too small to see here — is studying the landscape up close, finding evidence of ancient, salty waters on Mars.

Additional information could come from NASA's Opportunity rover, which attempted to photograph the lander as it deployed its parachute during the descent, but those images were not guaranteed — and if taken, they have yet to be transmitted to Earth.

It would land within Meridiani Planum, an equatorial region on the same side of Mars that hosts NASA's Opportunity rover.

It's been a long time coming, but this week NASA's Mars Opportunity rover completed the first - ever Martian marathon.

Back on Mars, NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers have found evidence of minerals associated with serpentinization.

«You can't send humans out to explore the solar system fast enough for me,» said Cornell University's Steve Squyres, the principal investigator for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, which are still doing science at Mars more than six years after landing there.

The lightweight track shoe gets its support from 116 cables spun out of Vectran — the same material NASA used in the air bags that cushioned the Spirit and Opportunity rovers when they landed on Mars.

Manned and unmanned missions to the moon and Mars deployed seismometers, which provided tantalizing but ultimately limited information before they stopped operating (although the Spirit and Opportunity rovers continue to transmit chemical analyses and pictures of the Red Planet back to Earth).

When the Spirit and Opportunity rovers reached Mars in 2004, the spacecraft also served as a communications relay for the rovers to send data back to Earth until it fell silent in 2006.

After this brief science instrument demonstration period, which also serves as a test for relaying this data back to Earth, along with data from NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, the focus turns back to operations and the preparations required to for aerobraking next year.

And while Martian winds can kick up sky - blotting dust storms like those that plagued the Spirit and Opportunity rovers this summer, the atmosphere of Mars is 100 times less dense than that of Earth.

4 By applying insights from studying the foundations and preservation of complex life on Earth to missions on Mars (members of our team are actively involved in mission planning for both the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, as well as conducting laboratory experiments on Earth to enable interpretation of the data returned from Mars);

Though there was never any danger of Siding Spring colliding with Mars or any of the orbiters, its tail contained gas and fine dust particles that, when they hit the Martian atmosphere and vaporized, caused what was probably a spectacular meteor shower, though one that no one could see except for the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers.

HiRISE has photographed the Curiosity and Opportunity rovers from space, and it also found NASA's twin Viking landers, which touched down on the Red Planet in 1976.

Not exact matches

She was made to last for a two - year mission, but with any luck (and judging by the hearty 9 - years - and - still - going run of the Opportunity Mars rover) she will far outlast that.

Previous projects include an in - situ iron ore spectrometer, a mini-LIDAR device, a table - top pipetting robot, and operations and testing of the Rock Abrasion Tools on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

(If you want to do science, it's orders of magnitude cheaper to send robots, like the phenomenally successful Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which are nearly universally described as «plucky.»)

Observations of the Martian moons, Phobos and Deimos, by Curiosity and by the older, still - active Mars rover Opportunity are helping researchers get more precise knowledge of the moons» orbits.

The researchers checked ripple textures preserved in sandstone more than 3 billion years old at sites investigated by Curiosity and by NASA's Opportunity Mars rover.

After hunkering down for six weeks to ride out a planet - spanning dust storm, the Mars rover Opportunity got back to work in September and began a drive into Victoria Crater, the largest, deepest crater it has yet explored.

Callas says that despite the wear on the rover, including an arthritic joint in its robotic arm, Victoria Crater isn't expected to be Opportunity's last hurrah.

Squyres, a planetary scientist at Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, is also the lead investigator for NASA's long - lived Opportunity Mars rover (although he says he plans to step down from that role if CAESAR is selected for flight).

Both trundled on for much longer than the 90 days of their primary mission, and when Opportunity was on its extended run, Verma's robotics expertise and experience with field testing rovers won her the chance to drive it.