Robots And Tech: Rover

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Thursday, April 30, 2015

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

Friday, October 10, 2014

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.

Thursday, September 25, 2014

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.

Saturday, September 6, 2014

Curiosity Rover Report (Dec. 9, 2013): Dating Younger Rocks

Curiosity Rover Report (Dec. 9, 2013): Dating Younger Rocks NASA's Curiosity has determined the age of a Martian rock and provided first readings of radiation on the surface of Mars.

Friday, August 1, 2014

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.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

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.

Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Curiosity Rover: Robotic Arm Target Practice [720p]

Curiosity Rover: Robotic Arm Target Practice [720p] How engineers teach Curiosity to use a robotic arm on Mars.

credit: NASA / JPL / Caltech

source: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=1073

Friday, February 21, 2014

Curiosity Rover Report (Feb. 14, 2014): Rover's 5K Run

Curiosity Rover Report (Feb. 14, 2014): Rover's 5K Run Curiosity logs 5K after a punishing trek over sharp terrain. To celebrate, JPLers put on their running shoes!

Friday, December 20, 2013

NASA and Caltech Test Steep-Terrain Rover (Axel) - Video File (AVC-2009-018)

Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab and students at Caltech have designed and tested Axel, a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain, and explore deep craters.

Copies of this video are available directly from JPL's vendor: DG Fastchannel, (323) 603-5220.

Friday, November 22, 2013

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.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

NASA and Caltech Test Steep-Terrain Rover

NASA and Caltech Test Steep-Terrain Rover Engineers from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and students at the California Institute of Technology have designed and tested a versatile, low-mass robot that can rappel off cliffs, travel nimbly over steep and rocky terrain, and explore deep craters.