Sentences with phrase «driving rover»

Will you trust our national science agencies — by the way, NASA is driving a rover around on the surface of mars right now.

«It was questionable whether we could get a five - wheel - driving rover out,» he says.

The right - rear wheel stalled on 28 and 21 November during attempts to start driving the rover out of the sand trap.

One of the programs enables the viewer to drive a rover on Mars.

«You definitely don't want to be the one who drove the rover off a cliff!

Emily Lakdawalla explains why Curiosity has joined the fraternity of backward driving rovers on Mars, and Bill Nye considers the not - too - distant future when airliners and spaceliners will share the sky.

You drive a rover from point to point and experience all the weird physics that one might expect in reduced gravity.

Not exact matches

It powered the New Horizons spacecraft to Pluto, it propels the Voyager probe into deep space, and it drives the Mars rover Curiosity across Martian terrain, Popular Science reports.

While sending a rover over could contaminate any water present in those canyons, NASA already announced in June that Curiosity will be driving to those canyons make its own investigation.

Steele and Williams use ultra-high-tech computers, satellite phones, the Internet, covert underground bunkers, superfuturistic weapons and massive range rovers driven in ways that conflict with local traffic laws.

Prof Pillinger was the driving force behind the project, persuading ESA to carry the UK rover as part of the payload aboard the Mars Express.

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

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.

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.

The rover had driven 205 feet (62.4 meters) on Sol 342 to arrive at the location providing this vista.

The upgrade will allow the rover to autonomously select interesting rocks, stopping in the middle of a long drive to take high - resolution images or analyze a rock with its laser, without any prompting from Earth.

«When we command the rover to drive to a goal, we are often driving in terrain we don't have detailed imagery for,» she explains, which presents a challenge when trying to give it specific instructions.

The rover also has hazard avoidance cameras that, together with on - board software, allow Curiosity to drive on its own.

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.

«We have to drive on to find newer things for the slew of instruments to analyze without compromising the rover hardware or the sample,» she says.

Jim Irwin of Apollo 15 remembers rover drives as an adventure, despite a top speed of 8 miles per hour.

The base of the mountain is 10 kilometres away, and the rover can drive at about 100 metres a day at full speed.

Mission managers have given up hope of fixing a broken wheel on NASA's Spirit rover and will simply have to drag the wheel on future drives.

They move independently beneath the rover, so that if it had to, it could drive over an obstacle as tall as a coffee table.

«Often, the rover driving past is the most interesting thing that's happened there in the past 2 billion years,» he says.

(NASA's rovers have seen so many that mission scientists often drive by without a second look.)

Each of the rover's six wheels has its own drive motor, which all still work after about 27.9 miles (44.9 kilometers) of driving on Mars.

The rover's drives now use steering motors on only the rear wheels, following a temporary jam of the left - front wheel's steering actuator this month.

Enter the Mars Helicopter, a proposed add - on to Mars rovers of the future that could potentially triple the distance these vehicles currently drive in a Martian day, and deliver a new level of visual information for choosing which sites to explore.

A proposed helicopter could triple the distances that Mars rovers can drive in a Martian day and help pinpoint interesting targets for study.

Each NASA rover has delivered a wealth of information about the history and composition of the Red Planet, but a rover's vision is limited by the view of onboard cameras, and images from spacecraft orbiting Mars are the only other clues to where to drive it.

The helicopter would fly ahead of the rover almost every day, checking out various possible points of interest and helping engineers back on Earth plan the best driving route.

Trips will be limited to about half a mile of walking from the landing vehicle or three miles of driving in a rover.

The rover had taken in fine soil particles, heated them, and passed the gases that the heating drove off through its mass spectrometer, which can separate and identify the gases by molecular weight.

When Spirit's six wheels were operating, he said, the rover team felt a «relentless imperative» to drive it.

The daily image downloads from the Mars rover Opportunity — yes, it's still driving around the Red Planet after more than seven years — and the Saturn orbiter Cassini have been so warmly welcomed that missions with less open policies, such as NASA's current Mercury and Vesta orbiters, let alone the European Space Agency's Venus and Mars orbiters, are often subject to harsh criticism.

In September 2007 he stood with Google cofounder Larry Page in Los Angeles to unveil the Google Lunar X Prize, promising up to $ 25 million to the team that successfully lands an unmanned rover on the moon, drives it 500 meters, and sends back photos, video, and data.

The rover will be delayed to address a «backlog of unresolved work» and undiagnosed problems with the rover's actuators, motor - driven gears that move the spacecraft's wheels, bend its robotic arm, and drive its drill, NASA administrator Mike Griffin told reporters.

The rovers» mechanical systems seem to be holding up well, Squyres reports, although ground controllers recently had to adjust how Spirit drives to minimize wear on its right front wheel.

Between normal flight - operations meetings and a conference about a possible dune drive for Opportunity, Squyres, the head of science operations for both rovers, managed to wolf down some lunch while he spoke with me about the rovers» successes and future plans.

To win, they must land a rover on the moon that will then drive 500 metres before turning to photograph its landing site — all before the end of 2012.

If the rover sinks further as it tries to churn its way out — as it almost surely will — the rover could hang up on the rock, taking its weight off the driving wheels.

NASA had put the rover into a «blind drive» on April 26, 2005, meaning the rover was not checking for obstacles as it went.

The rover landed inside the planet's vast Gale Crater on Aug. 5 and is currently driving toward its first science destination, a location called Glenelg.

In 2015, it passed a driving milestone, reaching more than a marathon's worth of distance (26.2 miles, or 42.1 kilometers)-- and the rover keeps racking up driving time.

«For the past four years, rover drive planners have used enhanced methods of mapping potentially hazardous terrains to reduce the pace of damage from sharp, embedded rocks along the rover's route,» NASA said in a statement.

While driving up to the crater and around it, the rover also saw clusters of meteorites that Squyres and the other mission scientists think could be fragments of the impactor that created the crater.

«Moon Over Mars: I snapped a pic of one of Mars» moons, Phobos, in the twilight sky over Gale crater,» NASA's Curiosity team announced on the mission's Twitter page @MarsCuriosity, writing as the rover itself, on Wednesday (Sept. 26)-- the same day Curiosity made its longest drive yet.

Just 16 feet into a planned 148 - foot drive, a slip check system on board automatically stopped the rover when it went past a programmed limit.

In return for his hospitality a few of the tough guys in our group drove back in one of our land rovers and towed it back to his camp for him.