Sentences with phrase «rover team»

The Curiosity rover team announced yesterday that they'd found the mission's first potentially habitable environment on Mars: an ancient river bed.

President Barack Obama congratulates NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team from the presidential jet.

Curiosity rover team members are now reasonably confident that contaminants brought from Earth can not entirely explain certain carbon compounds Curiosity spotted in martian rock.

One of the Spirit rover team geologists, Dr. Steve Ruff, a proponent of the Home Plate (Columbia Hills) silica site on Mars having been formed by an ancient siliceous hot spring, came along on a geothermal field trip I led in February 2016 to the Rotorua area with Australian geologists who work on Archean rocks.

Ancient lake could have held life, rover team says The scientists behind the Curiosity rover mission on Mars have fleshed out their findings about an ancient lake that they now say apparently had everything needed to sustain microbes that can live off minerals.

NASA's Curiosity Mars rover team celebrated the vehicle's 2,000 th Martian day, or sol, on the Red Planet on March 22, 2018.

And at the end, students from the Washington State University North Puget Sound at Everett Mars rover team stood on the second - place podium.

Watzin, NASA's rover team leader, who has attended and spoken at Mars Society functions, was a bit more diplomatic when it came to Mars Direct.

The trouble is, the rover team may not want them — and some astrobiologists are crying foul.

Each wheel has its own motor, and the rover team commanded Spirit to try to spin the wheel again during a series of tests on 3 and 4 December — but it did not budge.

When Spirit's six wheels were operating, he said, the rover team felt a «relentless imperative» to drive it.

The rover team is still unsure about exactly what kind of environment the rock formed in, including whether the hot water was in liquid or vapour form.

The rover team now studies wind strength and direction using change - detection pairs of images that were captured at different times revealing the movement of the sand grains.

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.

With this delivery completed, the rover team plans to drive Curiosity away from Pahrump Hills in coming days.

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

Then it was driven by the rover team out of Eagle and on into Endurance Crater.