Sentences with phrase «robotic rover»

Earlier this month, the car - sized robotic rover entered in safe mode and stopped all activities after it experienced some errors.

It carried a smaller robotic rover called Sojourner that roamed the planet, sending back incredible pictures of the surface of Mars.

They know more about planetary science than any other organization on Earth, and have proven their competency over and over by getting man to the moon and getting robotic rovers to various planets in our Solar system.

Delivering more mass to Martian orbit can then mean getting more robotic rovers, supplies or what have you to the surface.

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

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.

After all, landing the Yutu robotic rover, aka Jade Rabbit, on Earth's closest neighbour was a feat human explorers had bagged many decades before.

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.

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.

At the same time, the global race is heating up with the Chinese government's recent success in landing a robotic rover on the moon in December.

For this, William Whittaker of Carnegie Mellon University led a team of engineers in creating a robotic rover that can dig through concrete - hard moon rock.

Stern argued that the robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity spent four years on Mars before delivering as much science as Apollo 17 accomplished in a few days with two humans (including a trained geologist) on the moon.

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

Despite NASA's proposed mission to Mars in the 2030s, it's still a long way to go when we finally share the planet with probes and robotic rovers.