Sentences with phrase «by rovers»

Contemporary artist Chris Doyle, featured in issue 1, and choreographer / dancer Amy Smith, featured in issue 8, will discuss several of their collaborative experiments and talk about their work together on the forthcoming Red Rovers, a performance piece that takes as it starting point the exploration of the Martian landscape by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Evidence gathered by rovers and satellites such as Curiosity and the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter suggests that, billions of years ago, the Red Planet was once covered in lakes and oceans, and that it had a thicker atmosphere.

A lot of evidence points towards Mars being warm and wet early in its history; features that look like rivers, lakes and outflows have been spotted both from orbit and by rovers on the surface, and a lot of the planet's minerals contain water.

To be sure, spectra measured from orbit can be tricky to interpret, and the clays have yet to be confirmed by rovers on the ground.

Researchers at The Ohio State University have developed new software that compares images from the high - resolution imaging science experiment (HiRISE) camera on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter with ground panoramas taken by the rovers to map features on the Martian surface.

«So far, much of our surface exploration by rovers has focused on ancient terrains and whether or not the environments they record were habitable,» said Sun, lead author on the study and a graduate student working with Milliken.

This self - portrait of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity combines dozens of exposures taken by the rover's Mars Hand Lens Imager (MAHLI) during the 177th Martian day, or sol, of Curiosity's work on Mars (Feb. 3, 2013), plus three exposures taken during Sol 270 (May 10, 2013) to update the appearance of part of the ground beside the rover.

Meanwhile, observations by the rover solved the Pinnacle Island mystery by finding where the rock had been struck, broken and moved by a rover wheel.

This incomplete self - portrait of NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed on Mars on 6 August, is a mosaic of 8 images snapped by the rover's navigation cameras.

A reporter overheard Grotzinger praising the superb high - quality data being returned by the rover and assumed the remarks referred to an exciting discovery from Curiosity's first thorough soil analysis.

A LITTLE GAS The concentration of methane in the Martian atmosphere measured by the rover Curiosity is one ten - thousandth that on Earth.

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.

In 1970 the Soviet Union put a laser reflector on the moon, carried by a rover.

A portion has already been analyzed by the rover's Sample Analysis at Mars or SAM instrument.

Data and samples observed by the rover showed the previous presence of lakes and freshwater that are essential in the survival of microbial life.

On December 16, NASA announced another potential whiff of Martian life in the form of methane sniffed by the rover Curiosity.

The prized photo taken by the rover's Mastcam shows rows and rows of the distinctively - shaped sand dunes.

The full - resolution images were taken by the rover's Navigation camera.

The 86 frames combined into this clip were taken by the rover's Navigation Camera (Navcam) on the 317th Martian day of Curiosity's work on Mars (June 28, 2013, PDT).

Then it was driven by the rover team out of Eagle and on into Endurance Crater.

Not exact matches

The rover's instruments have found no traces of the gas, in contrast to some previous observations made by Red Planet orbiters.

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.»

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.

Past missions by NASA have allowed rovers to transmit images back to Earth, but not in a continuous stream.

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On Friday one of the rovers, John Paramor, the director of operations and chief referee on the European tour, looks contemplative as he smokes a cigarette in a cart by the 8th fairway.

All walls, doors and interior surfaces are painted reddish - brown to ensure the rover's navigation cameras are confronted by as realistic a scenario as possible.

This will be followed in 2018 by a second ExoMars launch which will carry the ExoMars rover to arrive at Mars in 2019.

One site at Columbia Hills in Gusev crater, was visited previously by the Spirit rover and features silica deposits interpreted by some as analogous to hydrothermal springs known to be inhabited on Earth.

The composition of NWA 7034 also matches that of rocks studied by Curiosity, NASA's newest rover, as described in preliminary reports from members of that mission.

Through September 16, Exploratorium visitors can inspect a full - scale replica of the sedan - size rover and learn about the mission through a dozen live discussions led by NASA scientists and engineers.

The lander's thrusters, designed by Raytheon and seen here next to their propellant tanks, will allow the rover to descend vertically to within 10 feet of its target landing coordinates near the Sea of Tranquility.

NASA would also like to see orbiters that can return to Earth with Martian samples sent up by capsule from a planned rover.

However, Gale crater, where the Curiosity rover landed, contains fragments of very ancient igneous rocks (around 4 billion years old) that are distinctly light in color, which were analyzed by the ChemCam instrument.

By alternating wheel swivelling with short drives, the rover was able to make slow and steady progress.

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.

Prior to CRaTER and recent measurements by the Radiation Assessment Detector (RAD) on the Mars rover Curiosity, the effects of thick shielding on cosmic rays had only been simulated in computer models and in particle accelerators, with little observational data from deep space.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has passed the milestone of 100,000 shots fired by its laser.

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.

This dovetails with orbital images hinting that the rover landed in an alluvial fan, a feature that is formed on Earth by water flows.

This set of three images shows views three seconds apart as the larger of Mars» two moons, Phobos, passed directly in front of the sun as seen by NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

In nine drives between 15 January and 8 February, mission members coaxed the rover into driving backwards by 34 centimetres — «pretty good for a lander», Arvidson said.

Last December Whittaker, who is also a contender with a separate team for the $ 30 million Google Lunar X-Prize, demonstrated the four - wheeled rover, collecting samples of soil and rock guided by a laser camera.

«NASA Mars rover views eclipse of the sun by Phobos.»

The determination that these mid-size ripples are a distinct type resulted from observations by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.

Analyses are made by the instrument SAM (Sample Analysis on Mars) on board the unmanned rover Curiosity located on Mars.

Turning over rocks across the crater, the rover has compiled evidence of ancient water — a lake fed by rivers once occupied the crater itself — and organic compounds and other chemicals essential for life.

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.

The rover Curiosity on the surface of Mars collects data by means of the instrument SAM (Sample Analysis on Mars).

Poised on a ridge overlooking the 14 - mile - wide crater Endeavour, the Mars rover Opportunity snapped a photo made more dramatic by the long shadows before sunset.