Tag: Curiosity
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NASA considers turning Curiosity rover into a scout for water on Mars mountain
This selfie of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover shows the vehicle at a drilled sample site called “Okoruso,” on the Naukluft Plateau of lower Mount Sharp. The scene combines several images taken with the rover’s Mars Hand Lens Imager on May 11. NASA says one of the Curiosity rover’s future tasks could be to check out sites…
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Microsoft and NASA team up to create virtual Mars tour with HoloLens
Erisa Hines, a driver for the Mars Curiosity rover, talks to participants during the “Destination: Mars” mixed-reality tour. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / Microsoft) Microsoft and NASA are bringing HoloLens to the masses – and bringing the masses to Mars – with a mixed-reality experience that will make its debut this summer. “Destination: Mars,” an exhibit opening at…
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Get a 360-degree view of that monster dune on Mars from NASA’s Curiosity rover
A portion of a 360-degree panorama captured by NASA’s Curiosity rover shows a portion of a 16-foot-high sand dune on Mars, with the summit of Mount Sharp in the far background. The bottom of the image is distorted due to the 360-degree effect. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech / MSSS) The 16-foot-high sand dune that…
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Curiosity rover reaches Martian sand dunes
The rippled surface of the first Martian sand dune ever studied up close fills this Nov. 27, 2015, view of “High Dune” from the Mast Camera on NASA’s Curiosity rover. This site is part of the “Bagnold Dunes” field of active dark dunes along the northwestern flank of Mount Sharp. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Curiosity rover…
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Mars rover steers toward active sand dunes
The dark band near the top of this Nov. 18 image from Curiosity’s navigation camera is part of the Bagnold Dunes. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech The Curiosity rover’s next destination is a moving mound of wind-blown dark sand blanketing the base of Mount Sharp, the focal point of the Mars mission’s research, scientists said this week. It…
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Mountain-climbing Mars rover sends back low-angle selfie
This low-angle self-portrait of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover from Aug. 5 shows the vehicle at the site from which it reached down to drill into a rock target called “Buckskin” on lower Mount Sharp. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover has recorded itself in another of its famous self-portraits as the mobile robot analyzes bore…
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Three years after Mars landing, Curiosity rover faces new mysteries
Ashwin Vasavada became the project scientist for NASA’s Curiosity rover mission in January. His role is to coordinate efforts of an international team of nearly 500 scientists. (Credit: NASA / JPL-Caltech) Three years after NASA’s Curiosity rover landed on Mars, scientists are celebrating a curious milestone: Although the six-wheeled, plutonium-powered robot has lasted a year…
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Curiosity rover sees blue on the red planet
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover recorded this view of the sun setting at the close of the mission’s 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover’s location in Gale Crater. Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS/Texas A&M University NASA’s Curiosity rover has returned a stunning image of the sun dipping behind a distant ridge from a…
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Glitch on Curiosity rover traced to drill mechanism
The mast camera on the Curiosity Mars rover captured this raw color view of the craft’s drill after collecting a rock powder sample Feb. 24. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS Officials are assessing how to adjust operations to collect future rock core samples with NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover after identifying its drill as the likely source of a…
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Engineers analyzing short circuit on Mars rover
Image analysts used dozens of images from Curiosity’s arm-mounted camera to create this “selfie” at the base of Mount Sharp. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/MSSS A short circuit that halted movement of NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover is not expected to keep the mobile robot stationary for long, but engineers want to know whether the problem will restrict some…