This illustration shows NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover, the second of the two Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the Red Planet in 2004 to search for signs of past life. NASA/JPL-Caltech It seems easy enough: If we can blast a man to the moon for a round of golf, why do we have...
This illustration shows NASA's Mars Opportunity Rover, the second of the two Mars Exploration Rovers to land on the Red Planet in 2004 to search for signs of past life. NASA/JPL-Caltech It seems easy enough: If we can blast a man to the moon for a round of golf, why do we have...
Thanks to developments in space exploration, we have more than just songs and books to turn to. In the 1960s–70s,NASA launched exploratory missions to land on and photograph the mysterious planet. They resumed efforts in the 1990s–2000s with a series of orbiters, rovers, landers, and pro...
The first robotic rover that successfully landed on Mars was Sojourner in July of 1997. Later, the Spirit and Opportunity Rovers landed on Mars in January 2004. Curiosity landed in 2012 and is still operating. Rovers are responsible for most of the information and data we have gathered from t...
The rover drivers at JPL are able to access 3D maps — built from images snapped by Perseverance’s left and right cameras — to see how well the rover is performing during its drives on the faraway planet. One big advantage over earlier NASA rovers such as Curiosity is that Perseverance ...
How to Build a Stateflow Chart | Mission on Mars Robot Challenge From the series: Mission on Mars Robot Challenge A short introduction on the rover robot camera and instruction on building a Stateflow® chart to move the robot to a specific target. Published: 23 Mar 2016Feed...
We've gotten pretty smart at telling rovers what to do when they're working on Mars. NASA has more than a decade's experience in directing these machines on the Red Planet, asking them to image rocks, drill into the surface, or drive over varying surfaces. The Curiosity rover is so sma...
MINERVA-II1A and MINERVA-II1B don't have wheels like NASA's Opportunity and Curiosity Mars rovers do — and there's a very good reason for that. [Japan's Hayabusa2 Asteroid Ryugu Mission in Pictures] "Gravity on the surface of Ryugu is very weak, so a rover propelled by normal wheels...
But this time really does feel a little different. We may not make NASA's ambitious goal to land thefirst woman on the moon by 2024, or Elon Musk's hope of getting to Mars within a similar timeframe. But if we just manage to build upon the momentum of this past decade and co...
Crazy Engineering: Making Oxygen on Mars with MOXIE “The idea in the short term is that we want to do a certain amount of autonomous ISRU to make our missions feasible,” Hecht said. “Once we have a base on the planet, like the McMurdo Station in Antarctica or like the International...