Sentences with phrase «science laboratory landed»

He was also the technical lead for the Mars Science Laboratory landing animation.

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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.

But that was before NASA had to delay the Mars Science Laboratory, a classically ambitious mission whose high - tech instruments and landing system pushed its launch date back to late 2011.

Devin Kipp is an entry, descent, and landing systems engineer at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and has spent the past 7 years working on the design, development, testing, and operation of the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft.

2012 SCIENCE NEWS TOP 25: 2 Besieged by budget cuts and diminished by the end of the shuttle era, NASA got a welcome shot in the arm in August as mission controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., watched their latest interplanetary emissary guide itself to a safe landing on Mars.

Boston Dynamics has several other robots in the works for the military, including its Legged Squad Support System (LS3) and a fleet - footed newcomer called Cheetah that can run nearly 30 kilometers per hour, breaking the 21 kph land speed record for legged robots set in 1989 at the Leg Laboratory, part of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab.

«We're trimming the distance we'll have to drive after landing by almost half,» Pete Theisinger, Mars Science Laboratory project manager at JPL, said in a statement.

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.

This 11 - minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012.

This artist's concept animation depicts key events in NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, including launch; cruise; entry, descent & landing; and, surface operations.

(Sec. 237) Authorizes the Secretary of Energy, acting through the Idaho National Laboratory, to participate in the Intermountain West Geothermal Consortium to address science and science policy issues surrounding the expanded discovery and use of geothermal energy, including from geothermal resources on public lands.

Land Ice Sea Level This website is produced by the Earth Science Communications Team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory / California Institute of Technology.

Alicia Torregrosa, Western Geographic Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, Menlo Park, Calif.; email: [email protected]; Travis A. O'Brien, Earth Science Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, Calif.; and Ian C. Faloona, Department of Land, Air, Water Resources, University of California, Davis