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As the Mars rover team uses testing at JPL to evaluate possible ways to drive Spirit out of loose soil on Mars, the team is finishing tests of individual "building block" maneuvers and is about to ...
A live videocast and chat from JPL will give viewers a chance to ask questions of rover team members working to get Spirit rolling again. Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-113 ...
The Mars rover team is using a test rover at JPL to assess various extraction techniques that might get Spirit out of the loose soil of "Troy" on Mars. Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2227 ...
Engineers checking possible rover movements to get Spirit out of the "Troy" sand trap on Mars are evaluating how a comparable rover at JPL fares in a crablike backward drive. Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2222 ...
On firm ground, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover s can make crablike moves by turning all four steerable wheels to the same side angle, then rotating the wheels either forward or backward. Read more: ...
Engineers used straight-backward driving of a test rover on Earth on Wednesday, July 8, as they evaluate maneuvers that might be useful for getting Spirit out of a sandtrap on Mars. Read more: ...
Using a test rover in a sandbox at JPL with special soil simulating Spirit's predicament on Mars, engineers are assessing possible maneuvers for getting Spirit out and onto firmer ground. Read ...
Engineers placed a rock underneath the test rover at JPL on July 1, 2009, to more closely simulate Spirit's predicament on Mars. Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/freespirit/ ...
Twelve-year-old Clara Ma flew from Kansas to JPL to meet and sign the next rover that will zoom millions of miles to Mars. Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/features.cfm?feature=2181 ...
The Spirit rover has run into soft dirt and is spinning its wheels after crawling across the planet for five years. Prof Prof Steve Squyres who is leading the Mars Exploration Rover Project of Cornell ...
NASA's Mars Science Laboratory rover , scheduled for launch in 2011, has a new name, thanks to a sixth-grade student from Kansas. Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-089 ...
NASA released an interactive, 3-D photographic
collection of the International Space
Station and a model of the next Mars rover . Read more: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-080 ...
NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit drove on Thursday for the first time since April 8, acting on commands from engineers who are still investigating bouts of amnesia and other unusual behavior exhibited ...
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A Chameleon Sky The sands of time are running out for the central star of this the Hourglass Nebula. With its nuclear fuel exhausted, this brief, spectacular, closing phase of a sun-like star's life occurs as its outer layers are ejected and its core becomes a cooling, fading white dwarf. In 1995, astronomers used the Hubble Space Telescope to make a series of images of planetary nebulae, including the one above. Here, delicate rings of colorful glowing gas (nitrogen-red, hydrogen-green, and oxygen-blue) outline the tenuous walls of the 'hourglass.' The unprecedented sharpness of Hubble's images revealed surprising details of the nebula ejection process and may resolve the outstanding mystery of the variety of complex shapes and symmetries of planetary nebulae. Image Credit: NASA, WFPC2, HST, R. Sahai and J. Trauger (JPL)... 03 Sep 2010 800x600 1024x768 Large
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