Sentences with phrase «rover opportunity found»

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

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.

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.

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

NASA helps Martian rovers locate hot winter hibernation spots NASA's intrepid Martian rovers — Spirit and Opportunity — are getting some earthly assistance in their quest to find a safe place to ride out the harsh Martian winter.

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.

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

Opportunity started by investigating a rock about 1 metre across, named Tisdale 2, and found large quantities of zinc, more than in any other rock examined by Opportunity or its now defunct sister rover, Spirit.

Head does not expect to find the same icy cover in the equatorial regions of Mars where Spirit and Opportunity landed, but he hopes the «scratch and sniff» tests — in which the rovers drill into Mars rocks and compare the surface with the interior — will reveal the climatic history of the region.

The Opportunity and Spirit rovers have also found evidence for ancient playa lakes and groundwater, although they were more salty and acidic than the lake in Gale crater.

The success of NASA's Mars rover Opportunity in finding tell - tale signs of past water at its Meridiani Planum landing site has left some researchers believing the region could have once been a habitable, albeit still hostile, environment.

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.