Sentences with phrase «footed rover»

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The group of companies is aiming to send Audi lunar quattro rovers to the landing site of NASA's Apollo 17 mission — when man last set foot on the moon in 1972.

Sooner or later humans — biped rovers that can't be sterilized — will set foot on the planet, hopelessly confounding any hope of finding indigenous life, he and several colleagues argue in an op - ed in press this month in the journal Astrobiology.

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.

With twin rovers still making tracks on Mars, plans are already underway for the next robotic mission to set foot on the Red Planet.

The 100,000 th shot was one of a series of 300 to investigate 10 locations on a rock called «Ithaca» in late October, at a distance of 13 feet, 3 inches (4.04 meters) from the laser and telescope on rover's mast.

While we humans have only set foot on the planet we sprang from and one solitary moon, we've constructed probes, orbiters, and rovers to saunter out into space and send back their reports.

The target was 13 feet, 3 inches (4.04 meters) from the top of Curiosity's mast, where the laser and remote micro-imager are mounted, when the rock was inspected during the 439th Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (Oct. 30, 2013).

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

A small rover was attached to the lander by a 50 - foot umbilical cord, and was intended to navigate the surrounding terrain on a pair of skis.

A series of robotic missions, from Viking in the 1970s to the Spirit rover still roaming Mars today, have observed ancient riverbeds and polar ice caps storing enough water to submerge the entire planet in an ocean 40 feet deep.

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.

It took the rover about 629 feet (191 meters) of wheel rotations before it was able to move forward three feet, but it cut itself free in early June 2005.

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge said this week that the rover Curiosity will land at the foot of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, allowing it to perform its key scientific mission and then wander up the mountain.

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.

The tests at Ames — which use the four - wheel, 4.5 - foot - tall (1.4 meters) K10 rover — are steps toward making that dream come true, he said.

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Start out in the seat of a rover operator, finish as the first human to have ever set foot on Mars.