Sentences with phrase «of rovers»

We have nothing comparable for Mars, the most intensively studied planet besides our own — one satellite, a couple of rovers, and not much else.

The two embark on a 7 - month journey where the odds are against them; NASA has an imperfect track record on Mars missions, the tiny window of opportunity crunches preparation time, and the slightest anomaly could derail one or both of the rovers and, with them, the entire expensive project.

It isn't likely to have been too impressive on the big big screen either, aside from the most exciting footage, which is merely computer animation, albeit detailed, accurate renderings of the rovers on Mars.

«The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and French National Space Agency (CNES) had agreed to work together on autonomous navigation of rovers on Moon, Mars and other planets, and aero braking technologies for planetary exploration.»

The Maven mission is part of a series of rovers and probes that aim to return key data about Mars before a planned mission to send humans there as early as the 2030s, NASA has said.

But even with those hiccups, the past five years (that's 20 times the planned lifetimes of the rovers) have yielded many insights into the planet's past and present and taught mission controllers numerous lessons about running a mission from millions of miles away.

And while mission controllers are aware of the limitations of the rovers, it's almost impossible to predict when the rovers might stop for good.

The rover landed near exposed bedrock, thrilling Ray Arvidson, deputy principal investigator of the rovers» science payload.

The length of the rovers» mission is leading to one unexpected result: fatigue among the science crew.

The pair of rovers landed on opposite sides of Mars in 2004, carrying identical payloads of instruments, including panoramic cameras and spectrometers for examining soil.

Steve Squyres oversees the science operations of both rovers and a team of 170 researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

We look at the state of the rovers currently on Mars, the big accidental discovery by the Spirit rover, and the next - generation device slated to join them in 2010, the Mars Science Laboratory Rover.

Similar to Apollos 15 through 17, but aimed at more scientifically rewarding, albeit riskier, landing sites, they likely would have been what NASA called «J» missions, involving three - day stays on the moon and the use of rovers to expand the scope of exploration.

Pablo Infante then gave the home side hope, leveling after 57 minutes with a Roy of the rovers strike, but the final half hour was a long one with both sides coming close to adding to the score.

i like the home kit as im not a fan of rovers kits with the red trims.

Winning the fa cup 3 times in 4 years was the stuff you only read about in «Roy of the rovers» We played such good football we attracted crowds below 20k to league matches.

On Friday one of the rovers, John Paramor, the director of operations and chief referee on the European tour, looks contemplative as he smokes a cigarette in a cart by the 8th fairway.

The CEO explained that it would drain the battery of the rovers very quickly.

The entry gate to the mountain is a gap in a band of dunes edging the mountain's northern flank that is approximately 2.4 miles (3.9 kilometers) ahead of the rover's current location.

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 component images were taken between 11:39 and 11:43 a.m., local solar time, on 343rd Martian day, or sol, of the rover's work on Mars (July 24, 2013).

Four scoop marks sit in Martian soil in front of the rover.

Rover managers are meeting this week to discuss those strategies and weigh the advantages and disadvantages of three potential winter havens, all within 100 metres of the rover's current location.

That peak is the primary destination of the rover's $ 2 billion trek.

Each of the rover's six wheels has its own drive motor, which all still work after about 27.9 miles (44.9 kilometers) of driving on Mars.

The helicopter would fly ahead of the rover almost every day, checking out various possible points of interest and helping engineers back on Earth plan the best driving route.

Planetary scientist Steven Squyres of Cornell University, head of both rover science teams, calls the Meridiani sea discovery the mission's biggest success.

«We've seen these materials on a small scale,» says planetary scientist Jim Bell of Cornell University, a member of the rover scientific team.

The power output of the rover's solar panels had been reduced by almost half because of a year's worth of accumulated dust.

Golombek, who was the chief scientist of the Pathfinder mission and is another member of the rover science team, told New Scientist: «We wait for months to see a dust devil and finally catch one and there's this big power boost within a day of it?

A few days of rover operations were affected in December due to an arm - motion fault, diagnosed as a minor software issue.

Callas estimated that temperatures could fall below — 40 degrees Celsius, which would approach the boundaries of the rover's operating specs.

Rover driver Ashley Stroupe of JPL said that Spirit's controllers are working to improve the positioning of the rover's solar panels, whether by adjusting Spirit's tilt or rotating it in place somewhat.

The added delay will bring the total lifetime cost of the rover mission to more than $ 2.2 billion.

Callas estimated that the temperatures Spirit will experience during winter, reaching down below — 40 degrees Celsius, would approach the boundaries of the rover's operating specs.

In The Martian, Matt Damon rests against the tire of his rover while solar panels recharge the batteries.

Multiple observations indicate that the flowing water responsible for shaping and moving the rounded pebbles encountered in the vicinity of the rover landing area has long since been lost to space, though some of it may still exist deep below the surface of the planet at equatorial locations (water ice is known to exist near the surface at the poles).

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.

And a look under the rover using its arm - mounted microscopic imager has revealed that a pyrimidal rock is just touching the underbelly of the rover.

(See an image of their rover prototype).

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 view is to the south of the rover's current position.

To save the stranded rover, NASA ran tests on a model of the rover in a simulated Martian «sandbox» at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used its panoramic camera (Pancam) during the mission's sols 1282 and 1284 (Sept. 2 and Sept. 4, 2007) to take the images combined into this mosaic view of the rover.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity recorded the dawn of the rover's 4,999 th Martian day, or sol, with its Panoramic Camera (Pancam) on Feb. 15, 2018, yielding this processed, approximately true - color scene.

«Not all water is fit to drink,» said Andrew Knoll, a member of the rover science team who is a biologist at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass..

This image from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows the location of a rock called «Pinnacle Island» before it appeared in front of the rover in early January 2014.

«When our hero travels into Arabia Terra it is described as much rockier than Acidalia, but the opposite is generally true: much of Arabia is dust mantled and smooth at the scale of a rover,» NASA helpfully explained in the run - up to the release of the book's movie adaptation.

The» +» indicates the location of the rover site.

Opportunity shows where a rock called «Pinnacle Island» (lower left corner) had been before it appeared in front of the rover in early January 2014 (Image: NASA / JPL - Caltech / Cornell Univ. / Arizona State University)