Sentences with phrase «says land rover»

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«The biggest thing we've landed on Mars is the one - ton Curiosity rover in 2012,» Jones says, «and that was at the limit of what we could do technologically.»

It says it's on schedule to land a rover there sometime in 2017, possibly launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral, where the company is based.

All that being said — No offense — but you lose all credibility about fiscal prudence when you say you own an off - warranty Land rover — regardless of what decade it was built.

«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.

Asked about the situation, Jim Green, director of the Planetary Science Division at NASA Headquarters says only, «We're continuing to study our options for long - range support of communication for our rovers and landed assets on Mars.»

That means researchers will reconsider the question of where to land the rover in about a year, says MSL project scientist John Grotzinger of Caltech.

With only four functioning wheels, the extrication process has been hindered, said John Callas, project manager for Spirit and its twin rover, Opportunity, at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif. (Opportunity soldiers gamely on from its landing site halfway around the planet.)

NASA scientists are already utilizing Mars Trek to help select candidate landing sites for the agency's Mars 2020 rover mission, and say they plan to also use it to analyze and select candidate sites for manned missions to the planet in the 2030s.

Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in La Cañada Flintridge said this week that the rover Curiosity will land at the foot of the Red Planet's Mount Sharp, allowing it to perform its key scientific mission and then wander up the mountain.

supported the new rover mission, saying in a statement that «an upgraded rover with additional instrumentation and capabilities is a logical next step that builds upon now proven landing and surface operations systems.»

«This is the same instrument that allowed us to support the challenging communications during the landing of the Spirit and Opportunity Mars rovers as well as the Cassini Saturn Orbit Insertion when the received radio signal was very weak,» said Sami Asmar, the JPL scientist responsible for the data recording.

«Of the top three potential landing sites for the Mars 2020 rover, Columbia Hills is indicated as a hot spring environment,» Djokic said in the statement, referring to one of the landing site candidates for NASA's upcoming mission to the red planet.

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Was there a «consensus» saying to everyone that would listen that «if we don't land a rover on Mars, we're doomed»?