Sentences with phrase «after land rover»
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«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.
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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.
After launching from Florida later this year, the rover will spend several months cruising toward Mars for a planned August 2012 landing.
After all, landing the Yutu robotic rover, aka Jade Rabbit, on Earth's closest neighbour was a feat human explorers had bagged many decades before.
Early next year, not long after Beagle 2 arrives, NASA plans to land another two rovers on Mars.
Eight months after landing on Mars, the rovers Spirit and Opportunity still keep Steve Squyres busy.
Less than two years after placing the 1 - ton Curiosity rover gently on the Martian surface, NASA is already dreaming up ways to land even bigger spacecraft on the Red Planet.
«We have scored a 300 - million mile interplanetary hole - in - one,» quipped Cornell University's Steve Squyres, principal investigator for the rover's science instruments, in a press release in the days after the landing.
The rover first spotted Martian blueberries soon after its landing in 2004.
It should be noted however that the Opportunity rover, which landed in 2004, is also still going strong after about 14 years!
As we zoom closer and closer into Gale Crater, the components of Curiosity's landing system come into view: The heat shield was the first piece to hit the ground, followed by the back shell attached to the parachute, then the rover itself touched down, and finally, after cables were cut, the sky crane flew away to the northwest and crashed Image credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / University of Arizona
By now it's old news that NASA's new Mars rover Curiosity is resting safely on the surface of Red Planet after a daredevil landing that had the nation holding its breath.
Land rovers are notorious for having this problem after 10 years or so.
An unexplained increase in sales of Mars Candy bars after any new rover landing on the planet Mars.