Sentences with phrase «rover found»

In 2013, rover found evidence that Gale Crater once had an ancient freshwater - lake environment that possessed the basic chemical ingredients to support microbial life.

Curiosity rover found rock - ingredient stew on the planet Mars that could possibly sustain life.

In particular, the rover found little spheres of hematite, a form of iron oxide, in Victoria that resembled those found kilometers away.

Geochemist Nicholas Tosca of Harvard University and his colleagues calculated the salinity of long - gone waters from the composition of the salts left behind both at Meridiani Planum, where the Opportunity rover found the remains of salty groundwater, and at Gusev crater, where Spirit found volcano - related hydrothermal deposits.

Nonetheless, the rover found no sign of methane in the atmosphere, dashing hopes that methane - producing microbes might still dwell there now.

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.

In another outcrop, the rover found jarosite, which on Earth forms only in water.

What exactly did the rover find?

In short order the rovers found proof of past water on the planet, including minerals that can form only in the presence of water, and ripple patterns in fine - grained rocks shaped by sea currents.

NASA's Curiosity rover finds calcium deposits on Mars similar to those seen on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures.

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The rover's instruments have found no traces of the gas, in contrast to some previous observations made by Red Planet orbiters.

The six - wheeled rover quickly delivered, finding that an area near its landing site called Yellowknife Bay was indeed habitable billions of years ago.

The Viking landers saw water frost on rocks, the Phoenix lander found water ice buried centimeters beneath the soil, and the Curiosity rover has rolled through an ancient riverbed.

Sooner or later humans — biped rovers that can't be sterilized — will set foot on the planet, hopelessly confounding any hope of finding indigenous life, he and several colleagues argue in an op - ed in press this month in the journal Astrobiology.

Since its arrival on Mars in 2012, NASA's Curiosity rover has zapped and drilled ancient rocks in the hopes of finding evidence for past life.

CURIOSITY, the beloved Mars rover, has taken a good, long whiff of Martian air, and found no hint of methane in the planet's atmosphere.

Back on Mars, NASA's Spirit and Opportunity rovers have found evidence of minerals associated with serpentinization.

New Scientist visits Death Valley to find out how human geologists read Earth's past in its present — and how the rover Curiosity will apply those tricks on Mars

MARS FERTILIZER The rover Curiosity has discovered «fixed» nitrogen, a biochemically important form of the element also found in fertilizer on Earth.

Within this crater the Opportunity rover — just slightly too small to see here — is studying the landscape up close, finding evidence of ancient, salty waters on Mars.

«We have to drive on to find newer things for the slew of instruments to analyze without compromising the rover hardware or the sample,» she says.

Unencumbered by human frailties, Curiosity — like the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which survived on the Red Planet years longer than expected — will be free to hunt for E.T. «If we find evidence for life on Mars, boy, are we just gonna go wild with speculation about how common it is in the universe,» says Lou Friedman, a former scientist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena and cofounder, with Carl Sagan, of the Planetary Society.

Whiffs of chemicals found in rocket fuel, a dark pyramid that resembles rare volcanic rocks on Earth and glassy particles bearing traces of water are among the Curiosity rover's finds in its first chemical investigation of Martian dirt.

After months of searching, the NASA rover Curiosity detected no appreciable methane in Mars» atmosphere, disappointing scientists who had hoped to find a strong sign of life on the Red Planet.

NASA's Curiosity rover has found evidence of a liquid water cycle on Mars, and harnessing this could one day make drinking water for astronauts

But these rovers are like Swiss army knives, with so many tools and so many capabilities, that finding the way to get the optimum usage, given all the constraints and all the desires and all the science you want to do, is a wonderful challenge to try to meet every day.

Three years ago he found it on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, then under assembly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

This taste of carbon is intriguing, but it is a far cry from recent feverish speculation that the rover had found definitive evidence for organic compounds on Mars.

NASA's Curiosity rover has tasted carbon in Martian soil, sparking speculation as to its origin, and has also found that Mars prefers its hydrogen heavy

Tasked with searching for signs of life - friendly environments on Mars, the rover can now cross off «find evidence for water» from its life - friendly to - do list, NASA announced in a press conference September 27.

Meanwhile, observations by the rover solved the Pinnacle Island mystery by finding where the rock had been struck, broken and moved by a rover wheel.

NASA helps Martian rovers locate hot winter hibernation spots NASA's intrepid Martian rovers — Spirit and Opportunity — are getting some earthly assistance in their quest to find a safe place to ride out the harsh Martian winter.

SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA — The first full analysis of martian soil by the Curiosity rover has detected simple carbon compounds that could be the first traces of past martian life ever found, NASA scientists announced here today at a press conference at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union.

Other rovers have found evidence of salty ground water or evanescent puddles of brine.

Join us for a live chat at 3 p.m. EDT on Thursday, 2 August, when we talk with two experts on the Curiosity rover and what it might find on Mars.

Finding out sounds like a job for a nimble - footed rover.

Tantalizingly, Diana Blaney of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a member of the Mars Exploration Rover team, announced at the September meeting that a rock found by the Spirit rover, christened Independence, is claylike.

Like a hound sniffing the wind, NASA's Curiosity rover, the 899 - kilogram, car - sized robot that landed on Mars 13 months ago, has analyzed the Red Planet's thin atmosphere and found no traces of the gas methane.

If the rover was finding even a part per billion (ppb) or so of methane, there would be a chance that life — life on Mars, today — was producing it.

The $ 2.5 billion Curiosity rover has demonstrated that warm streams once flowed on the Red Planet, for instance, but it is not equipped to find microbes, either living or dead.

Researchers found high levels of manganese oxides by using a laser - firing instrument on the rover.

Chemicals found in Martian rocks by NASA's Curiosity Mars rover suggest the Red Planet once had more oxygen in its atmosphere than it does now.

But unless a large, preferably green alien walks past the camera of an unsuspecting rover, actually finding a pulse out in space will be a difficult proposition.

After enduring seven minutes of terror, NASA's $ 2.5 billion rover is already finding proof that the Red Planet was once hospitable to life.

As long as they can find out the cause of the lander's troubles, they will be better prepared to land a larger ExoMars rover in 2020, and the mission could still be viewed as a partial success.

The duo found one fungus and one bacterium on both the rover and two snow sites, one downwind and one ahead of the direction of travel.

A bumper crop of «blueberries» has been found around the rim of Mars's Victoria Crater by NASA's Opportunity rover.

The discovery suggests that when the rover descends into the crater in a few months, it may find a bathtub ring of the tiny concretions — an ancient high - water mark suggesting the area was altered by ground, not surface, water.

Opportunity started by investigating a rock about 1 metre across, named Tisdale 2, and found large quantities of zinc, more than in any other rock examined by Opportunity or its now defunct sister rover, Spirit.