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Opportunity Studies Interesting RocksPasadena CA (JPL) Sep 07, 2010 Opportunity finished her campaign to examine an exposed outcrop of rock that was of interest to the science team. On Sol 2342 (Aug. 26, 2010), the rover's robotic arm (Instrument Deployment Device, IDD) collected a single microscopic imager (MI) image of the target, "Laya Beach" and a MI mosaic of the target, "Cervera Shoal." On the next sol, the moessbauer (MB) spectrometer was placed on the Cervera Shoal for a multi-sol integration. However, an anomaly was observed with the moessbauer spec ... read more |
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Hampton VA (SPX) Aug 20, 2010NASA is developing technologies that will allow landing vehicles to automatically identify and navigate to the location of a safe landing site while detecting landing hazards during the final descent to the surface. This is important because future missions - whether to the Moon, an asteroid, Mars or other location - will need this capability to land safely near specific resources that are ... more  
Boston MA (SPX) Aug 19, 2010Although unmanned, wheeled rovers have explored the surfaces of the moon and Mars for decades, these vehicles have limits - they can't crawl inside craters, scale cliffs or travel long distances. For more than two years, a team of students led by Professor of the Practice of Astronautics and former NASA astronaut Jeffrey Hoffman in MIT's Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics has been ... more  
Paris (AFP) Aug 18, 2010If a human ever sets foot on Mars, will it be a giant step or an exhausted shuffle? Long-term space flight so weakens fitness that an astronaut heading to the Red Planet may lose up to half the power in key muscles in the course of the mission, scientists have found. The loss - equivalent to a crew member aged between 30 and 50 returning home with the muscles of an 80-year-old - would ... more |
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Opportunity Drives Five Times This WeekPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 16, 2010 Opportunity drove five times in the past week, crossing 22 kilometers (13.67 miles) of total odometry. The rover drove on Sols 2322, 2324, 2326, 2327 and 2328 (Aug. 5, 7, 9, 10 and 11), totaling over 350 meters (1,148 feet). The rover has been driving with long (approximately 70 meters, 230 feet) commanded drives followed by short drive segments of autonomous navigation (AutoNav) to extend the drive distance each sol. On Sol 2325 (Aug. 8, 2010) another Autonomous Exploration for Gather ... read more |
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