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Friday, March 13, 2015

NASA's Robots May Head to Mars Via Earth's Volcanoes - IGN News

NASA's Robots May Head to Mars Via Earth's Volcanoes - IGN News NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory researcher's development of robots to study terrestrial volcanoes may be be used to explore volcanoes on other planetary bodies like Mars in the future.

Read more here:
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/01/16/nasas-robots-may-head-to-mars-via-earths-volcanoes

Tuesday, January 27, 2015

NASA's Robots May Head to Mars Via Earth's Volcanoes - IGN News

Tuesday, August 12, 2014

Expedition 37 Crew Heads Back to Earth

Soyuz Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin and Flight Engineers Karen Nyberg and Luca Parmitano undocked their Soyuz TMA-09M spacecraft from aft end the International Space Station's Zvezda service module at 6:26 p.m. EST Sunday to begin the journey home. At the time of the undocking, the complex was orbiting 262 miles over northeast Mongolia.

A deorbit burn at 8:55 p.m. will put the Soyuz on track for a parachute-assisted landing in the steppe of Kazakhstan southeast of Dzhezkazgan at 9:49 p.m.

Thursday, May 22, 2014

US Robotic Exploration of Earth, Mars, Our Solar System and the Universe

US Robotic Exploration of Earth, Mars, Our Solar System and the Universe Randii R. Wessen, Ph.D., is the Deputy Manager of the Project Formulation Office at Caltech's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. For 27 years, he has worked on multiple spacecraft, including the search for Earth-like planets around other stars. He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and the British Interplanetary Society.

Monday, April 14, 2014

Earth and Moon Seen by Passing Juno Spacecraft with Music by Vangelis

When NASA's Juno spacecraft flew past Earth on Oct. 9, 2013, it received a boost in speed of more than 8,800 mph (about 7.3 kilometer per second), which set it on course for a July 4, 2016, rendezvous with Jupiter.

One of Juno's sensors, a special kind of camera optimized to track faint stars, also had a unique view of the Earth-moon system. The result was an intriguing, low-resolution glimpse of what our world would look like to a visitor from afar.

Friday, January 17, 2014

NASA | There and Back Again: The Migration of Robotic Arm Technology from Mars to Earth [HD]

While robotic arm applications on Earth have existed for decades, it's only in the last few years that manipulation jobs have moved far outside the factory walls. We now look for arms capable of tasks such as ordinance disposal, underwater operations, and disaster response. It is in this last area that JPL will immediately apply all its lessons learned from the Mars surface missions to a terrestrial application, DARPA's Robotic Challenge ( www.theroboticchallenge.org ).