Sentences with phrase «rock target»

This animated GIF (above) shows a simulation of the motion of the MARCI detectors across Mars, but in this case it is a scan of an array of colored rock targets imaged by MARCI in a laboratory at Malin Space Science Systems.

Yellowjacket is the first rock targeted by ChemCam after checkout of the auto - focus repair.

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

Curiosity's drill has used a combination of rotary and percussion action to collect samples from six rock targets since the rover landed inside Gale Crater in 2012.

Ongoing analysis will help the rover team develop guidelines for best use of the drill at future rock targets.

So now I'm rocking some Target jeans.

This same color rock target was used to calibrate the Pancam color cameras on the Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) and was loaned to the MARCI team by Richard Morris of the NASA Johnson Space Center.

Another significant accomplishment is that the rover team has started testing the use of the drill again, on a rock target called Lake Orcadie — the first time since December 2016, after problems with the drill mechanism caused it to be inoperable.

This sample comes from a rock target called «Telegraph Peak,» the third target drilled during about six months of investigating the «Pahrump Hills» outcrop on Mount Sharp.

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity drilled a circular hole into this rock target, «Cumberland,» on May 19, 2013.