Sentences with phrase «first rover»

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It was a time of elation — China was busy re-igniting the space race by landing its first rover on the moon — ...

The first rover sent to Mars was NASA's Sojourner, part of the Mars Pathfinder mission, which also included a stationary lander called Pathfinder.

One of the key instruments that has accompanied every rover since Pathfinder became the first rover to land on the surface of Mars in 1997 are imagers — cameras.

Two years after placing its very first rover on the surface of the moon, China has announced it would launch a mission to return lunar samples to Earth later this year.

The most exciting instruments are likely to be microscopes, which would allow the rover to perform the first ever extraplanetary microscopy — much as Curiosity was the first rover to drill into another planet.

The first rover to be powered by the radioactive decay of plutonium rather than sunlight, Curiosity will be able to work around - the - clock and through the Martian winter.

It's been a busy time for NASA: Just before the first rover landed on Mars (page 10), the Stardust spacecraft achieved a dazzling double score, collecting pieces of comet Wild 2 (the first sample of a body beyond the moon) and sending back pictures of the comet's 3.1 - mile - wide icy core.

These were the first the rover has taken of the Red Planet at night.

The first rovers went to Mars for what it would cost to make a movie about sending Bruce Willis to Mars.

In Surviving Mars, players will lead a colonization effort on the surface of Mars, from the very first rovers and supply drops to the construction of suitable habitats for brave settlers from Earth.

Not exact matches

The Curiosity Mars rover's first color photograph of a sunset in 2015 revealed a surprising twist — sunsets on Mars are blue.

«Over the next few months, the science team is really excited to get to Mount Sharp, where we think the layered rocks there have captured the major climate changes in Mars» history,» Curiosity deputy project scientist Ashwin Vasavada said in a new NASA video marking the rover's first Martian year.

It's been a long time coming, but this week NASA's Mars Opportunity rover completed the first - ever Martian marathon.

«NASA's Mars Curiosity rover marks first Martian year.»

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover has caught the first image of asteroids taken from the surface of Mars.

«Asteroids as seen from Mars — A Curiosity rover first.»

That's part of why the rover has already left the outcrops behind and is now heading first toward a spot called Glenelg, where three different rock types come together, and then full speed towards the mountain in the middle of the crater, alternately called Aeolis Mons or Mount Sharp.

SAN FRANCISCO — NASA's Curiosity rover has caught a whiff of methane in Mars» atmosphere and has for the first time detected organic molecules in rocks on the planet's surface.

Whiffs of chemicals found in rocket fuel, a dark pyramid that resembles rare volcanic rocks on Earth and glassy particles bearing traces of water are among the Curiosity rover's finds in its first chemical investigation of Martian dirt.

After a series of delays, the deadline to win the $ 30 million prize by being the first private firm to put a rover on the moon was pushed back to the end of March 2018.

Researchers discovered the pattern when the NASA rover stopped at a set of dunes in Gale crater in late 2015 and early 2016, and they first reported the discovery in March at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in The Woodlands, Texas.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, partway through the first up - close study ever conducted of extraterrestrial sand dunes, is providing dramatic views of a dune's steep face, where cascading sand has sculpted very different textures than the wavy ripples visible on the dune's windward slope.

Before examining them, the rover is first heading along the crater rim to the north - east of Tisdale 2.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The first full analysis of martian soil by the Curiosity rover has detected simple carbon compounds that could be the first traces of past martian life ever found, NASA scientists announced here today at a press conference at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

On October 30, NASA announced that the rover had completed its first detailed analysis of the Martian surface using the CheMin X-ray analysis instrument, which shoots X -...

SAN FRANCISCO — It took more than three months, but NASA's Curiosity rover has sent back its first complete tests of Mars» windswept soil.

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.

Well into its fifth year, NASA's Curiosity rover has now shot more than 500 movies of the clouds above it, including the first ground - based view of martian clouds shaped by gravity waves, researchers reported this week at the Lunar and Planetary Science Conference.

In a series of five papers covering the rover's top discoveries during its first three months on Mars that appear today in the journal Science, Los Alamos researchers using the rover's ChemCam instrument team up with an international cadre of scientists affiliated with the CheMin, APXS, and SAM instruments to describe the planet's seemingly once - volcanic and aquatic history.

India most recently launched its first Mars mission, and ISRO has plans to send a lander and rover together to the moon around 2017.

That rover has stayed close to one spot for the last nine months, where among other observations, it spotted the first water - ice clouds identified from the surface of Mars.

By comparison, when NASA began work two years ago on its next Mars rover, the project had a firm launch date (2020), a target budget ($ 1.5 billion) and substantial funding ($ 775 million for its first four years).

First prize is $ 20 million for the group that can land a lunar rover — an unmanned robotic probe — on the Moon, take it on a 500 - metre trek and broadcast video back to Earth by 31 December 2012.

Every time NASA lands a robot on the Red Planet, its operations team must adapt to that long Martian day for the first period of roving, to take full advantage of the hours between the data transmission at the end of the rover's day and the upload of new commands the following Mars morning.

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.

From the first space probes to the most recent planetary rovers, they have continually delivered impressive discoveries and reshaped our understanding of the cosmos.

The rover first spotted Martian blueberries soon after its landing in 2004.

NASA has revealed a new image, recorded and dispatched by its Curiosity Mars rover, which shows two asteroids as viewed for the first time from the Martian surface.

The rover has since taken its first photos and soil samples in what is expected to be at least a two - year study that may prove Mars once held water — and possibly life as we know it.

When the Mars Curiosity made its dramatic and first - of - its - kind landing on Mars in August of 2012, the hope was that the $ 2.5 - billion rover could confirm what scientists had suspected: that there was life on Mars.

Nitrogen, in the form of nitric oxide (one nitrogen atom and one oxygen atom), has been detected for the first time on the surface of Mars by a team of researchers using the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) instrument suite aboard NASA's Curiosity rover, adding to the growing speculation that life could have once flourished on ancient Mars.

Who knows, maybe it won't be the next generation of space telescopes that discovers the first instance of extraterrestrial life — maybe it'll be a NASA rover, right here in our own Solar System.

China will attempt to land the Chang» e 3 rover on the moon at year's end, the first lunar surface mission since Russia's Luna 24 sample return lander in 1976.

But while Curiosity's nerve - wracking landing is unprecedented, the sophisticated rover is not the first robotic spacecraft to set foot on the Red Planet.

A little over five months since making landfall on the blood - red surface of Mars, NASA's remarkable Curiosity rover is heading towards its first sample - drilling target: a flat rock, laced with pale veins, which may yield clues about -LSB-...]

In the first episode of a new JPL video series, we celebrate the 14th anniversary of the Opportunity rover, show you a recent panoramic view from the Curiosity rover, look at ice deposits spotted by the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and check out the latest test on the InSight lander, heading to the Red Planet in May 2018.

On June 24, 2014, NASA's Curiosity rover completes her first Martian year (687 Earth days).

This video clip shows the first Martian material collected by the scoop on the robotic arm of NASA's Mars Curiosity rover, being vibrated inside the scoop after it was lifted from the ground on Oct. 7, 2012.

On October 4, 2017, NASA completed the first supersonic parachute test in preparation for the space agency's Mars 2020 rover mission.