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NASA’s Mars 2020 rover finally has a name: Perseverance. The result of a nationwide “Name the Rover” essay contest, the winning moniker was submitted by 13-year-old Alexander Mather of Lake Braddock Secondary School in Burke, Virginia, where the result… Continue reading NASA’s Mars 2020 rover gets an official name
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover has received a key piece of equipment for the collection, containment, and eventual return to Earth of samples of the Red Planet. At the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. California, engineers have installed the bi… Continue reading NASA installs robotic toolkit in Mars 2020 rover
With an eye to making future unmanned and manned planetary landing missions safer, NASA has installed the first components of an advanced instrument package aboard the Mars 2020 entry vehicle. Parts of the Mars Entry, Descent and Landing Inst… Continue reading Mars 2020 spacecraft gets new landing sensor package for greater safety
NASA’s Mars 2020 Mars rover passed its first set of eye exams as engineers work on the unmanned explorer’s array of cameras. The first complement of what will be a total of 23 cameras was installed on the front of the rover at the Spacecraft … Continue reading Mars 2020 rover passes robotic eye exam
NASA’s Mars 2020 rover got a bit of a workout recently as it flexed its mechanical muscles. Captured in a time-lapse video, the 7-ft (2.1 m) robotic arm with its 88-lb (40-kg) “hand” did a bit of curling as space agency engineers guided it fr… Continue reading Mars 2020 rover flexes its arm ahead of 2020 launch
NASA engineers have started loading nuclear fuel into the Mars 2020 rover. In anticipation of the unmanned explorer’s scheduled 2020 launch, the space agency’s Associate Administrator for the Science Mission Directorate, Thomas Zurbuchen has given the green light to begin placing the plutonium-238 dioxide fuel into the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) that will provide the rover with heat and electricity.
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Having recently received its wheels, NASA’s Mars 2020 rover now has its arm. On June 21, engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, began attaching the intricate robotic arm and hand that the unmanned explorer will use to search for signs of past and present life on the Red Planet.
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NASA’s Mars 2020 rover is getting ready to roll, as engineers have installed its wheels at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California. On June 13th, the unmanned nuclear explorer received its port and starboard legs and wheels, that will allow it to roam the surface of the Red Planet as it seeks out signs of present or past life.
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Continue Reading NASA’s Mars 2020 rover gets wheeled up for the Red Planet
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A newly-installed clean room webcam at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, is giving members of the public a front row seat as technicians and engineers assemble the Mars 2020 rover. The robotic explorer will be accompanied by a helicopter equipped with a high-resolution camera when it launches to the Red Planet atop an Atlas V rocket next year.
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Continue Reading 24-hour webcam let’s you watch as engineers build NASA’s next Mars rover
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The technology that will guide NASA’s Mars 2020 mission to a landing on the surface of Mars began testing recently in the skies over Death Valley in California. Installed in an Airbus helicopter, an engineering prototype of the Lander Vision … Continue reading Mars 2020 mission goes to Death Valley to test landing cameras