News tagged with nasa rovers
Planned Rover Test to Run a Week or More
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars rover team members are planning a long-duration experiment with the test rover at JPL beginning next week. This test will check whether favorable motion seen in earlier tests can be sustained ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 14, 2009 |
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Free Spirit: Longer Rover Tests Beginning
(PhysOrg.com) -- Mars rover team members have begun a new phase of testing at JPL -- using longer-duration experiments -- in their preparations for driving Spirit again on Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jul 27, 2009 |
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Rover Tests Evaluating Crabwalk Moves
On firm ground, NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers can make crablike moves by turning all four steerable wheels to the same side angle, then rotating the wheels either forward or backward.
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Jul 13, 2009 |
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Mars Rover Yielding New Clues While Lodged in Martian Soil
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars rover Spirit, lodged in Martian soil that is causing traction trouble, is taking advantage of the situation by learning more about the Red Planet's environmental history.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jun 25, 2009 |
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'Curiosity': NASA Selects Student's Entry as New Mars Rover Name
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover, scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Twelve-year-old Clara Ma from the Sunflower Elementary school ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 27, 2009 |
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Spirit rover's wheels stuck in soft Martian dirt
(PhysOrg.com) -- The five wheels that still rotate on NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit have been slipping severely in soft soil during recent attempts to drive, sinking the wheels about halfway into the ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 12, 2009 |
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NASA Releases Interactive 3-D Views of Space Station, New Mars Rover
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic collection of internal and external views of the International Space Station and a model of the next Mars rover on Thursday, May 7.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
May 07, 2009 |
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Spirit Healthy but Computer Reboots Raise Concerns
(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit is examining data received from Spirit in recent days to diagnose why the rover apparently rebooted its computer at least twice over ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Mars rover Spirit has unexplained computer reboots
(AP) -- NASA's aging Mars rover Spirit has rebooted its computer at least twice for unknown reasons.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Apr 14, 2009 |
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Spirit Resumes Driving
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit resumed driving Saturday after engineers gained confidence from diagnostic activities earlier in the week evaluating how well the rover senses its orientation.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 03, 2009 |
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Mars Rover Team Diagnosing Unexpected Behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- The team operating NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit plans diagnostic tests this week after Spirit did not report some of its weekend activities, including a request to determine its orientation ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 28, 2009 |
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Socializing on Mars
(PhysOrg.com) -- After five groundbreaking years exploring the Red Planet, the communications engineers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory pretty much know what they are getting when another downlink from ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 15, 2009 |
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Mars Rovers Near Five Years of Science and Discovery
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA rovers Spirit and Opportunity may still have big achievements ahead as they approach the fifth anniversaries of their memorable landings on Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 30, 2008 |
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