Sentences with phrase «from the curiosity rover»

So what does NASA have to teach those who are desperate to generate just a small percentage of the buzz that came from the Curiosity rover for their business?

An image from the Curiosity rover's Front Hazard - Avoidance Camera shows the rover drilling into its second rock target, «Cumberland.»

WATERY PAST Sandstone deposits laid down by ancient rivers on Mars, seen in this image from the Curiosity rover, indicate that Gale Crater was once a shallow lake.

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.

This sped - up movie from the Curiosity rover shows Phobos (the larger of Mars» two moons) passing in front of smaller Deimos.

So far we've come up empty - handed but a recent finding from the Curiosity rover has refueled scientists» hopes.

Not exact matches

A mosaic of images from the navigation cameras on the NASA Curiosity rover shows «halos» of lighter - toned bedrock around fractures.

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.

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.»

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.

This scene combines seven images from the telephoto - lens camera on the right side of the Mast Camera (Mastcam) instrument on NASA's Mars rover Curiosity.

Curiosity's telephoto camera snapped shots of three rocky outcrops not far from the rover's landing site inside Gale Crater.

Dangling from the balloon was a payload that extended flat plates out into the thin air and exposed tens of millions of spores — far more than the estimated 56,000 that rode on the surface of the Curiosity rover to Mars.

Two sizes of ripples are evident in this Dec. 13, 2015, view of a top of a Martian sand dune, from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.

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

As Curiosity begins to climb a mountain for some vertical geologizing, Science News imagined key entries from the rover's personal diary, logged as the 1 - ton machine made its way across the Martian landscape.

Before its 2011 launch, the Curiosity Mars rover (above) underwent $ 10 million worth of sterilization efforts to prevent biological stowaways from «infecting» the Red Planet.

The atmosphere of Mars, though much thinner that Earth's, will shield NASA Mars rovers Opportunity and Curiosity from comet dust, if any reaches the planet.

The facility monitors signals being beamed from the space program's star performers, including the Mars rover Curiosity, the Cassini orbiter exploring Saturn and its neighborhood, and the Spitzer Space Telescope, which follows Earth around the sun, collecting information on stars and galaxies.

On some missions, such as NASA's Curiosity Mars rover (now deep into its third Earth year seeking signs of habitable conditions on the Red Planet), the excess heat from the MMRTG can also be used to keep spacecraft systems warm in cold environments.

Even down on the Red Planet's surface, the Curiosity rover might be able to get in on the act: Because Mars's atmosphere has no ozone to block ultraviolet light, sensors on the rover will be able to detect those wavelengths and thereby monitor certain trace gases spewing from the comet — unless a dust storm blocks the view to space, Lemmon says.

This image from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover shows the Amargosa Valley, on the slopes leading up to Mount Sharp on Mars.

If it means sending microbes from Earth and having them persist and maybe grow, then, unfortunately, it's not unlikely that we've done that as well — possibly on Mars with the Phoenix spacecraft and almost certainly inside the Curiosity rover, which carries a heat source and was not fully baked the way Viking had been.

A view from the «Kimberley» formation on Mars taken by NASA's Curiosity rover.

The paper is one of six appearing in the journal that reports results from the analysis of data and observations obtained during Curiosity's exploration at Yellowknife Bay — an expanse of bare bedrock in Gale Crater about 500 meters from the rover's landing site.

IN THE AIR Measurements collected by NASA's Curiosity rover indicate that methane is periodically released into Mars» atmosphere from an unknown source.

President Barack Obama congratulates NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team from the presidential jet.

Billions of years ago, enough water flowed down from the rim of Gale crater to carry gravel to the middle of the crater floor — where the Curiosity rover found and imaged it 3 weeks ago, the NASA mission's team members reported in a press conference today.

President Barack Obama wants to hear immediately from NASA if its Curiosity rover discovers life on Mars.

NASA's Curiosity rover isn't leaving just tire tracks in the reddish Martian dust — it's also leaving scoop marks in an area called Rocknest, about 480 meters away from where the rover touched down in August.

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.

NASA's Opportunity rover, exploring Mars since 2004, also recently discovered high manganese deposits thousands of miles from Curiosity.

She uses Curiosity's Chemistry and Camera (ChemCam) instrument, which fires laser pulses from atop the rover's mast and observes the spectrum of resulting flashes of plasma to assess targets» chemical makeup.

At its closest, Siding Spring was only 139,500 kilometers, roughly a third the Earth - moon distance, from the planet's surface, meaning it probably put on quite a show for rovers like Curiosity.

Sanchez - Cano has investigated the interaction of the comet with energetic particles from the Sun, and the effects of the CME and cometary encounter on the martian atmosphere, using data from ESA's Mars Express mission, NASA's MAVEN and Mars Odyssey orbiters, and the Curiosity rover on the martian surface.

But no mission since, from the Pathfinder mission in the 1990s to the current Curiosity rover to the upcoming Mars 2020 and ExoMars rovers, has been cleared to access potentially special regions.

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity appears as a bluish dot near the lower right corner of this enhanced - color view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Curiosity rover team members are now reasonably confident that contaminants brought from Earth can not entirely explain certain carbon compounds Curiosity spotted in martian rock.

In this «selfie» of Curiosity from September 2016, the pale outline of Aeolis Mons can be seen in the distance, to the right of the rover's mastcam.

This view from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA's Curiosity Mars rover shows dramatic buttes and layers on the lower flank of Mount Sharp.

Laser - zapping of a globular, golf - ball - size object on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover confirms that it is an iron - nickel meteorite fallen from the Red Planet's sky.

Eroded mesas and buttes reminiscent of the U.S. Southwest shape part of the horizon in the latest 360 ° color panorama from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover.

The rover science team identified a different path using data from Curiosity's onboard software and from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Comparison of the Moon as soon from Earth (right), and Phobos and Deimos as seen from the surface of Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover in 2013 (Credit: NASA / JPL - Caltech / Malin Space Science Systems / Texas A&M Univ)

After this brief science instrument demonstration period, which also serves as a test for relaying this data back to Earth, along with data from NASA's Curiosity and Opportunity rovers, the focus turns back to operations and the preparations required to for aerobraking next year.

After conducting analysis of the crescent - shaped dunes on Mars, the Curiosity rover has taken samples from a linear dune on the Red Planet.

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.

NASA's 2020 rover will look almost identical to Curiosity (and will be partly built from Curiosity's spare parts), and will land on Mars using the same lowered - to - the - surface - by - a-giant-sky-crane method.