Sentences with phrase «rovers spirit»

Contemporary artist Chris Doyle, featured in issue 1, and choreographer / dancer Amy Smith, featured in issue 8, will discuss several of their collaborative experiments and talk about their work together on the forthcoming Red Rovers, a performance piece that takes as it starting point the exploration of the Martian landscape by the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

To date, none of the robotic Mars landers and rovers that have operated on the Martian surface have experienced any consequences of this phenomena, including the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

In addition to its own major scientific discoveries and continuing studies of the planet, the Odyssey mission has played important roles in supporting the missions of the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and the Phoenix Mars Lander.

For about a week each month, MSSS operations personnel assist with the commanding / sequencing of cameras aboard the rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

The lander used parachutes to slow its descent, and then deployed airbags to bounce to a stop much like NASA's successful Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Spectrometers on orbiting spacecraft and on the MER rovers Spirit and Opportunity have previously seen indications that small quantities of carbonates were present in martian soil, but spectroscopic analysis is often a bit of a guessing game.

He was Flight Director for the rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the Surface Mission Manager for Phoenix.

That simple principle applies even to the exotic sundials carried on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

Eight months after landing on Mars, the rovers Spirit and Opportunity still keep Steve Squyres busy.

Honeybee Robotics, a company building some of the instruments for the NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity, obtained some metal wreckage that they fashioned into two cable shields and two spares (in case the launches failed) to protect wiring on each rover from rock impacts.

Since then, however, NASA has successfully carried out four missions to Mars, including landing the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

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

He spent the next 10 years at JPL, participating in assembly, test, and launch operations for Mars missions and acting as flight director for Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity and surface mission manager for Mars lander Phoenix.

Two of NASA's dynamic duos — the two Voyager crafts and Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity — are famous for operating well beyond their expected lifetimes.

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.

(If you want to do science, it's orders of magnitude cheaper to send robots, like the phenomenally successful Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which are nearly universally described as «plucky.»)

Previous projects include an in - situ iron ore spectrometer, a mini-LIDAR device, a table - top pipetting robot, and operations and testing of the Rock Abrasion Tools on the Mars rovers Spirit and Opportunity.

The next day the rover Spirit touched down flawlessly on Mars, followed later that month by Opportunity.

It turns out to contain large quantities of zinc, more than in any other rock examined by Opportunity or its now defunct sister rover Spirit.

Bird's eye view of MER rover Spirit combines self portrait and mosaic of the surface surrounding the rover.

As many of us broil in August heat, the Mars rover Spirit is hunkered down to survive a far more brutal season — a Martian winter.

The Mars rover Spirit has long surpassed its planned three - month mission, and appears to be virtually powerless.

Not exact matches

One site at Columbia Hills in Gusev crater, was visited previously by the Spirit rover and features silica deposits interpreted by some as analogous to hydrothermal springs known to be inhabited on Earth.

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

NASA's Spirit rover should be able to wriggle free of its sandy trap on Mars after all, says a scientist for the mission.

After months of trying unsuccessfully to free the rover, NASA declared on 26 January that Spirit would henceforth be a stationary lander mission rather than a rover.

«You can't send humans out to explore the solar system fast enough for me,» said Cornell University's Steve Squyres, the principal investigator for the Spirit and Opportunity rovers, which are still doing science at Mars more than six years after landing there.

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.

NASA's Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, dazzled the world with their journeys across the planet's rusty landscape, but they have huge limitations: They can travel no more than about six miles during their entire life spans, and they are stuck on the surface.

Mission managers have given up hope of fixing a broken wheel on NASA's Spirit rover and will simply have to drag the wheel on future drives.

A second wheel may now be broken on NASA's Spirit rover, dampening hopes for freeing the robot from a sand trap it has been trapped in for seven months.

The lightweight track shoe gets its support from 116 cables spun out of Vectran — the same material NASA used in the air bags that cushioned the Spirit and Opportunity rovers when they landed on Mars.

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.

2004: Spirit and Opportunity Built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the remote - controlled rovers have been exploring the Martian surface for more than a year.

He has not put aside this dream, however; a vast image of the Spirit rover's landing site hangs over his video display terminal.

Spirit and Opportunity, the two rovers that continue to roam and prod Mars for evidence of water, were built here.

NASA's twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, reached Mars in January with one goal: Prove the Red Planet was once awash with water.

The landing sites of the Spirit and Curiosity Mars rovers are on the other side of the planet.

On January 4 and 25, two NASA rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, will land on Mars and start scooting across its rusty surface.

Cornell University's Steve Squyres, the principal science investigator for the rovers, expressed hope «that Spirit will survive this cold, dark winter that we have ahead of us.»

If Spirit can not be moved, for example, all concerned would review the spacecraft's health, the science that could be done from an immobilized rover, and the cost of that science.

It's a touching counterpoint, 2 days after writer John Updike passed away, to the news that the NASA Spirit rover on Mars is starting to suffer mysterious bouts of amnesia.

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.

The list of places where NASA's next Mars rover, due to launch in 2020, could land has been narrowed down to three: Jezero crater, the dry remains of an ancient lake; Northeast Syrtis, which used to host hot springs; and the Columbia Hills, previously explored by NASA's Spirit rover.

Most recently, he ran the panoramic cameras on the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers.

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

The Spirit rover had previously discovered that hot springs used to flow in the Columbia Hills as well, making it another area where life may have existed and been preserved.

The most immediate challenge for Spirit will now be surviving the long, frigid Martian winter, for which the rover is not well positioned to maximize its gathering of solar power.

The technology helped NASA identify a steep Martian mesa known as «Von Braun» as a promising site for Spirit to explore, but also indicated that the upward journey would prevent the rover's solar panels from accessing Mars's weak winter sun to charge its batteries and keep its essential circuitry heaters going.

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.