Sentences with phrase «for robotic explorers»

Noble as human exploration may be, we would know very little about anything in the cosmos much more distant than the moon were it not for robotic explorers.

And with temperatures plummeting as the comet races from the sun, it will soon be too cold for the robotic explorer to keep its computer running.

I arrive during the last week of field tests for the robotic explorer VALKYRIE, which could one day dive into the ocean thought to hide beneath the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa, looking for signs of life.

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Puglia's portfolio also features a couple of promising smaller heavy - equipment makers: Florida - based Roper Technologies (rop), which specializes in industrial robots for power plants and also makes medical imaging robotics; and Washington State — based Fortive (ftv), which makes automation tech used in everything from Mars explorers to artificial hearts.

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Yet scientists still don't have enough data to pick the ideal destinations for tomorrow's robotic or human explorers.

For now, Stone and other scientists are excited about the robotic explorer's accomplishment on August 25, 2012 — the same date, coincidentally, that the world lost its most famous human space explorer, Neil Armstrong.

Called STRIDE, for surface tension based robotic insect dynamic explorer, the robots use water's surface tension to amble on their spindly legs exactly like water striders, the insects that motivated the challenge.

Remote sensing suggests that there are even younger and even more diverse basalts on the Moon, waiting for future robotic or human explorers to investigate, Jolliff said.

«MAVEN is another NASA robotic scientific explorer that is paving the way for our journey to Mars,» said Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters in Washington.