Sentences with phrase «of robotic rovers»

But the concept could spawn a new generation of robotic rovers suited to all terrains, says Tim Lexen, an engineer in Cumberland, Wisconsin, who developed the idea and built a prototype in his spare time.

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Entering an access code of «Mars» will turns your GPS map into an image of Mars's surface, with your vehicle's icon becoming a small robotic rover.

«Once renovations are complete, Hangar One will again be home to high - tech innovation, as Planetary Ventures begins using the historic facility for research, development, assembly and testing in the areas of space exploration, aviation, rover / robotics and other emerging technologies,» NASA said in a statement.

There are plans for car - sized, nuclear powered rovers, robotic mining platforms, and sample - return missions, and Tremblay hopes to be part of it.

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.

1997: Sojourner The six - wheeled 25 - pound robotic rover rolled onto the surface of Mars on July 5, 1997.

Serving as an advance scout, it will scan for noteworthy rocks so the rover's robotic arm collects only the most intriguing bits of Mars to bring onboard.

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.

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.

«Self - cleaning glass is very useful because it prevents the need for robotic or manual removal of dust and debris that would reduce the efficiency of solar panels, whether the panels are on your house or on a Mars rover.»

Ideas abounded: using ion engines to ferry up the components of a moon base; beaming power to robotic rovers on the Martian moon Phobos; attaching high - power Hall effect thrusters to the International Space Station (ISS) and putting it on a Mars cycler orbit; preplacing chemical rocket boosters along an interplanetary trajectory in advance so astronauts could pick them up along the way; using exploration pods like those in 2001: A Space Odyssey rather than space suits; instead of sending astronauts to an asteroid, bringing a (very small) asteroid to astronauts at the space station.

The Sun will rise on NASA's solar - powered Mars rover Opportunity for the 5,000 th time on Saturday, sending rays of energy to a golf - cart - size robotic field geologist that continues to provide revelations about the Red Planet.

Stephen Gorevan, chairman of Honeybee Robotics, a Brooklyn - based company best known for the work it's done to equip NASA's Mars rovers with robotic life - detection components, talks about aerospace technology and the future of space exploration.

Mars rover uses a robotic arm as a «selfie stick» to capture a dramatic image of its surroundings on the Red Planet.

Since then, the hardy rover has tallied about 300 days exploring Mars while its robotic twin Spirit has spent an even longer time trekking across Gusev Crater on the other side of the planet.

Now, we're almost certain that there's liquid water on Europa — and so the next stage is sending some kind of robotic probe or rover out there, to do some real, up - close - and - personal science.

Mars Pathfinder was designed to be a demonstration of the technology necessary to deliver a lander and a free - ranging robotic rover to the surface of Mars in a cost - effective and efficient manner.

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.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover is expected to remain stationary for several days of engineering analysis following an onboard fault - protection action on Feb. 27 that halted a process of transferring sample material between devices on the rover's robotic arm.

This animation depicts movements of the robotic arm of NASA's Mars rover Curiosity as commanded for Aug. 20, 2012, the first time the arm was used on Mars.

This simulation shows planned movements of the arm on NASA's Curiosity rover for round one of its robotic arm checkouts, expected to run on Sol 33 (Sept. 8, 2012).

The speakers include Beagle 2 Manager Mark Sims; U.K. Space Agency Chief Executive David Parker; Alvaro Giménez Cañete, ESA's director of science and robotic exploration; and John Bridges, a science team member on NASA's Curiosity rover and Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) missions.

To date, none of the robotic Mars landers and rovers that have operated on the Martian surface have experienced any consequences of this phenomena, including the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Running briskly at the IMAX standard of 40 minutes, Roving Mars covers the recent NASA exploration mission that saw two robotic rovers traveling to the surface of the Red Planet.

Question for candidates: Should we keep sending people into space when a robotic rover can take pictures of the Victoria Crater on Mars?