A sketch of the design for NASA's 2020 Mars rover, which will be based heavily on the agency's Curiosity rover. Agency officials will announce the 2020 rover's science instruments on July 31, 2014. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Some people may be disappointed that NASA's next Mars...
NASA's Curiosity rover and its parachute were spotted by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter as Curiosity descended to the surface on Aug. 5 PDT (Aug. 6 EDT). The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera captured this image of Curiosity while the orbiter was listening to tran...
NASA Ames Research Center, has also started testing stereo capabilities for non-orbital sensors found on rovers and landers using an adaptation of the frame sensor model. This is essentially an implementation of a CAVHOR sensor model [42]. CAVHOR has been widely used in NASA’s Mars rover ...