News tagged with rovers
Rover Spirit: Another Stall of Right-Rear Wheel Ends Drive
(PhysOrg.com) -- Spirit's right-rear wheel stalled again on Sol 2099 (Nov. 28, 2009) during the first step of a two-step extrication maneuver.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 02, 2009 |
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Mars Odyssey Orbiter Puts Itself Into Safe Standby
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter put itself into a safe standby mode on Saturday, Nov. 28, and the team operating the spacecraft has begun implementing careful steps designed to resume Odyssey's ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Dec 01, 2009 |
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Spirit Mars Rover: No Wheel Stall in Diagnostic Drive
(PhysOrg.com) -- On Sol 2095 (Tuesday, Nov. 24), Spirit performed a set of diagnostic actions related to a stall of the right-rear wheel on the previous drive, three days earlier.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 25, 2009 |
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Free Spirit: Third Extrication Drive Ends With Wheel Stall
(PhysOrg.com) -- Spirit experienced a wheel stall with the right-rear wheel during the second step of a two-step drive on Sol 2092 (Saturday, Nov. 21). This is not the same wheel that stalled on Sol 1899 (May ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 23, 2009 |
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Second Planned Extrication Drive is Straight Ahead Again
(PhysOrg.com) -- Because the first extrication drive for Spirit, on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17), stopped as soon as it began due to an exceeded tilt limit, the plan for an extrication drive on Sol 2090 (Nov. 19) wil ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Tilt Parameters End First Extrication Drive for Spirit
(PhysOrg.com) -- The preliminary results from the first extrication drive for Spirit on Sol 2088 (Nov. 17, 2009) indicate the rover stopped less than 1 second after it began, sensing more vehicle lateral tilt ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 17, 2009 |
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NASA to Begin Attempts to Free Sand-Trapped Mars Rover
(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA will begin transmitting commands to its Mars exploration rover Spirit on Monday as part of an escape plan to free the venerable robot from its Martian sand trap.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Nov 12, 2009 |
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Amnesia-Like Behavior Returns on Spirit
(PhysOrg.com) -- Until Oct. 24, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover had gone more than six months without an episode of amnesia-like symptoms like those that appeared on four occasions earlier this year.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 31, 2009 |
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A Mars Rover Named 'Curiosity'
(PhysOrg.com) -- If you found your grandmother's diary, tattered and dust covered, up in the attic, would you read it? Of course you would. Granny was a pistol! Brush off the dust, open up the little book, ...
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 30, 2009 |
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Team Runs Operational Test to Prepare for Extracting Spirit
(PhysOrg.com) -- Engineers using test rovers on Earth to prepare for extracting the sand-trapped Spirit rover on Mars have added a new challenge to their preparations.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 19, 2009 |
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Scientists work to free Mars rover Spirit
(PhysOrg.com) -- In the past several weeks, scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory finished experimentation on methods to get the rover Spirit unstuck from its location near a plateau called Home Plate.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Oct 13, 2009 |
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Spirit Rover: Computer Modeling Supplements Dusty Testing
(PhysOrg.com) -- Tests on Earth simulating Spirit's predicament on Mars have reinforced understanding that getting Spirit to rove again will be very difficult.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Sep 15, 2009 |
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New robot travels across the seafloor to monitor the impact of climate change on deep-sea ecosystems
(PhysOrg.com) -- Like the robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which wheeled tirelessly across the dusty surface of Mars, a new robot spent most of July traveling across the muddy ocean bottom, about 40 ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 14, 2009 |
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New robot travels across the seafloor to monitor the impact of climate change on deep-sea ecosystems
Like the robotic rovers Spirit and Opportunity, which wheeled tirelessly across the dusty surface of Mars, a new robot spent most of July traveling across the muddy ocean bottom, about 40 kilometers (25 miles) ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 09, 2009 |
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Second Test Rover Added to Driving Experiments
A second, lighter-weight test rover has entered the testing setup at JPL where rover team members are assessing strategy for getting Spirit out of soft soil where it is embedded on Mars.
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 24, 2009 |
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