‘NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover used its Mast Camera, or Mastcam, to capture this view of Earth setting while Phobos, one of Mars’ two moons, is rising. It’s the first time an image of the two celestial bodies have been captured together from the surface ...
NASA's Mars rover, Curiosity, recently captured a stunning photo of the Martian skies and landscape that offers researchers a glimpse at what the red planet looks like at different times of day. The rover, which has been on Mars since August 2012, captured the images with black-and-white n...
根据划线词所在的句子“The Mars 2020 rover (漫游车), which sets off for the Red Planet this year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions, NASA scientists said Friday as they introduced the vehicle.美国航天局科学家5日在介绍火星2020号火星...
Curiosity, NASA’s Mars rover (探测器), recently took the world by surprise. It took a picture of a small “flower” while it was exploring the surface of Mars. Clearly, it’s not an actual flower. But it could be a rock that had been created a long time ago. Back then, the Red...
Over the weekend,NASA's newest Mars rover,the Curiosity,which landed early on Aug.6 after an eight-month flight,started sending back a 360-degree high-resolution(高分辨)panorama (全景画;全景摄影)of its surroundings. At a news conference on Wednesday,John P.Grotzinger,a professor of geology ...
In a news conference last month, John Grunsfeld, head of NASA’s science directorate, admitted that he and his colleagues were anxious about what would happen when the $2.5 billion rover named Curiosity descended onto Mars. “This is risky business,” he said, with a proud little smile. We...
NASA's Curiosity rover has captured "sun rays" on Mars for the first time, the agency says. The footage was taken on Feb. 6, NASA said, and showed the phenomenon as the sun set on the planet. This is the first time, NASA said, that the sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays...
4.NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called “Buckskin” on lower Mount Sharp. But that’s not all — Curiosity’s data suggests that methane is now being released on a seasonal cycle, though we don’t quite understand the ...
While Curiosity, the most recent rover that's part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, cost a whopping $2.47 billion to build, NASA still didn't have to account for pesky things like allowing someone to breathe oxygen [source: Space.com]. Or return from Mars, for that matter. ...
根据文章第一段一句“The Mars 2020 rover(漫游者)(02W), which sets off for the Red Planet this year, will not only search for traces of ancient life, but pave the way for future human missions,”(火星2020漫游者(02W)今年将前往这颗红色星球,它不仅将寻找古代生命的痕迹,而且将为未来的人类任...