NASA | Opportunity Rover Poised to Enter Victoria Crater, Mars

NASA | Opportunity Rover Poised to Enter Victoria Crater, Mars Rover project manager John Callas shares the challenges around the decision to send Opportunity inside Victoria Crater and the risks and discoveries that may lie down below.

Release Date: 2007

Credit: NASA JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory

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Curiosity and MAVEN Explore Mars

This animation first shows Curiosity working to understand Mars as a past habitat, with a cut to MAVEN arriving at Mars to study the upper Martian atmosphere. Curiosity will not be able to "see" MAVEN on its arrival. Later in the mission, Curiosity may be able to view MAVEN when its orbit passes over Gale Crater at dusk, similar to viewing a low-earth-orbiting (LEO) satellite around Earth. As a precedent, Mars rover Spirit captured the Mars Odyssey orbiter as a bright point in the Martian sky.

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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.

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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.

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NASA Developing Mining Robot for Moon, Mars

NASA Developing Mining Robot for Moon, Mars NASA is developing the RASSOR mining robot to collect soil, or regolith, on the moon or Mars so it can be processed into rocket fuel, breathable air and other commodities. By using materials available at other locations in the solar system, astronauts don't have to carry it all from Earth.

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Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation

Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover Animation This 11-minute animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011 and land a rover, Curiosity, on Mars in August 2012. A shorter 4-minute version of this animation, with narration, is also available on our youtube page.

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Mars Exploration Rover Mission

Maas Digital created this animation of the Mars Exploration Rover mission for Cornell University and NASA/JPL in 2003. 24fps, Sound Effects Only version.

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission (MER), is an ongoing robotic space mission involving two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars. It began in 2003 with the sending of the two rovers MER-A Spirit and MER-B Opportunity to explore the Martian surface and geology.

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How to Get to Mars. Very Cool! HD

"How To get to Mars" is a clip from the IMAX documentary "Roving Mars" from 2006. This is an edited short version.


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How to Get to the MOON. Also Very Cool!
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Spirit, MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover -- A), is a robotic rover on Mars, active from 2004 to 2010.

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10 Years on Mars: Science

10 Years on Mars: Science Find out how the Mars Exploration Rover team traversed the Red Planet, examined the diverse environment and transformed our understanding of Mars.

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NASA JPL TWEETUP - Mars Rover Lab at JPL 12 BETRANSLATED

BeTranslated was invited to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Dryden Flight Research Center in California


Independence, Kentucky USA -- BeTranslated was selected to attend two TWEETUP events at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California and Dryden Flight Research Center in Palmdale, California.
Nasa hosted a Tweetup for approximately 120 Twitter followers at JPL on Monday, June 6 and 20 Twitter followers at Dryden on Wednesday, June 8th.

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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.

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NASA Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) Mission Animation [HDx1280]

NASA Mars Science Laboratory (Curiosity Rover) Mission Animation [HDx1280] Released April 4, 2011, courtesy of NASA/JPL: "This artist's concept animation depicts key events of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, which will launch in late 2011.

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Keeping Mars Rovers From Getting Stuck | MIT JPL Space Science Full HD Video

Visit my website at - a team from MIT's Robotic Mobility Group, Washington University in St. Louis and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., have created a software system called Artemis that accurately simulates rover mobility over various types of soil and terrain. The ability to travel over rough terrain without becoming stuck has always been one of the biggest challenges engineers face when designing rovers.

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Keeping Mars rovers rolling

Mobility is a vital part of a rover's mission on the surface of Mars. The ability to travel across the terrain without becoming stuck is a problem researchers have been trying to solve for some time. Now, a team from MIT's Robotic Mobility Group, Washington University in St. Louis and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a model called Artemis that accurately simulates rover mobility over various types of soil and terrain.

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Video: Melanie Gonick
Additional images courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT Robotics Mobility Group

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Mars Pact with France Signed | This Week @NASA

NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and Jean-Yves Le Gall, President of France's National Center of Space Studies or CNES, signed an agreement for cooperation on the lander for NASA's future InSight mission to Mars. InSight will probe deep into the subsurface of Mars to understand the evolutionary formation of rocky planets, including Earth. A CNES instrument onboard the lander is designed to measure seismic waves -- which provide clues about the earliest stages of the planet's formation.

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Keeping Mars rovers rolling

Mobility is a vital part of a rovers mission on the surface of Mars. The ability to travel across the terrain without becoming stuck is a problem researchers have been trying to solve for some time. Now, a team from MITs Robotic Mobility Group, Washington University in St. Louis and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., has developed a model called Artemis that accurately simulates rover mobility over various types of soil and terrain.

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Video: Melanie Gonick
Additional images courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MIT Robotics Mobility GroupIn May 2009, the Mars rover Spirit cracked through a crusty layer of Martian topsoil, sinking into softer underlying sand.

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NASA's Valkyrie 'Superhero' Bot May Help Us Explore Mars

NASA has developed a robot that may be used to explore Mars before humans ever set foot on the red planet. "Valkyrie" was developed by a team of engineers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, Tex. for the DARPA robotics competition later this month. Valkyrie is a 6.2-foot, 275-pound humanoid robot that can walk on its own and pick up and manipulate objects. It is extremely flexible with 44 degrees of axes of rotation in its joints.

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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 ).

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Dropping in on Mars in High-Res

Dropping in on Mars in High-Res This movie from NASA's Curiosity rover shows most of the high-resolution frames acquired by the Mars Descent Imager between the jettison of the heat shield and touchdown.

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS

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NASA's Mars Rover Curiosity: Historic Landing

http://www.facebook.com/ScienceReason ... NASA's Mars Mission: Weather on Mars looks great for huge rover landing tonight at Gale Crater on Mars: NASA's one-ton, nuclear-powered Mars Science Laboratory "Curiosity" will land on the red planet tonight.

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With Mars looming ever larger in front of it, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft and its Curiosity rover are in the final stages of preparing for entry, descent and landing on the Red Planet at 10:31 p.m.

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