2019 was a sad year for robotics and space enthusiasts alike as theOpportunityrover 'died' on Mars after a record-breaking 15 years of operation. This Instructable describes our journey in the construction of a rover based on the mentioned marvel of engineering. It makes a great summer project...
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...
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover imaged these drifting clouds on May 17, 2019, the 2,410th Martian day, or sol, of the mission, using its black-and-white navigation cameras.(Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) Mars' orbit around the sun
(MSL) rover uses an XRD instrument called CheMin to identify clay minerals on the surface at the landing site inside Gale Crater (Blake et al., 2013) and several martian surface missions have measured surface chemistry and this data was then used to infer mineralogy (Baird et al., 1977; ...
Rover instrumentationSpectroscopyMineralogyAstrobiologyThis work details the laboratory analysis of a suite of 10 samples collected from an inverted fluvial channel near Hanksville, Utah, USA as a part of the CanMars Mars Sample Return Analogue Deployment (MSRAD). The samples were acquired along the ...
months, snapping pictures and getting a close look at the layered rocks surrounding the crater. NASA then made a gutsy decision in June 2007 to take Opportunity inside the crater. It was a risk, as it was unclear if the rover could climb out again, but NASA said the science was worth ...
LOS ANGELES, June 13 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Mars 2020 rover, its latest robotic mission to the Red Planet, will include technology to explore ancient life on Mars, according to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Wednesday. The science goal of the Mars 2020 rover is to look for signs of ...
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 18 (Xinhua) -- NASA's Mars 2020 rover has successfully passed its first driving test, according to a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, on Wednesday. A preliminary assessment of the rover's activities on Tuesday showed that it check...
The nighttime events are among initial results from the InSight lander, which also found hints that the red planet may host a global reservoir of liquid water deep below the surface.