Sentences with phrase «twin rovers»
The phrase "twin rovers" refers to two robotic vehicles that are exactly the same and designed to explore and collect information about different places, usually on other planets or moons. Full definition
With twin rovers still making tracks on Mars, plans are already underway for the next robotic mission to set foot on the Red Planet.
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NASA had earlier considered to fly an orbiter in 2018, but later decided to supply equipment for the European probes, expand its current Mars missions and develop the Curiosity twin rover for launch in 2020.
Certainly the twin rovers on Mars and the intrepid Cassini spacecraft dodging around Saturn's rings have generated a powerful sense of wonder, yet those are exactly the kinds of projects that are at risk as Griffin places his bet on human voyagers, not mechanical surrogates.
NASA's twin rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, reached Mars in January with one goal: Prove the Red Planet was once awash with water.
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 in Pasadena, Calif. (Opportunity soldiers gamely on from its landing site halfway around the planet.)
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.)
Even as the twin rovers continue to explore the dusty plains of the Red Planet, a follow up mission is already in the works.
Since then, however, NASA has successfully carried out four missions to Mars, including landing the twin rovers Spirit and Opportunity.
As they approach their third anniversary on Mars, the twin rovers remain in excellent health, except for one stuck wheel on Spirit, on the opposite side of Mars.
NASA's Mars rover Opportunity seems to have stumbled into something akin to a carwash that has left its solar panels much cleaner than those of its twin rover, Spirit.
That depth is far beyond the reach of the instruments aboard Spirit and Opportunity, the twin rovers still rolling across the Martian landscape.
Opportunity and its twin rover, Spirit, received their names from 9 - year - old Sofi Collis.