Rosalind’s lander has two sets of ramps that the rover will use to drive down and start scouting the once water-rich terrain of Oxia Planum in the search for signs […]
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NASA Tests Future Mars Droids In Death Valley
Next-generation drone flight software is just one of 25 technologies for the Red Planet that the space agency funded for development this year.
Posted inAnalog Studies, Away Teams & Field Reports, Biogeochemical Cycles & Geobiology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Caves, Craters, Mountains, Subsurface, Lava Tubes, Desert Worlds, Exploration Gear & Tech, Mars, Press Release, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, Sample Return
Teaching Robots To Walk On Mars From The Sand Of New Mexico
Researchers are closer to equipping a dog-like robot to conduct science on the surface of Mars after five days of experiments this month at White Sands National Park in New […]
Posted inBiosignatures & Paleobiology, Exploration Gear & Tech, Mars, Missions & Hardware, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, Status Report, Tricorders & Sensors
Nighthawk: Rationale For A Mars Chopper Class Rotorcraft To Explore Noctis Labyrinthus
Summary: Nighthawk is a concept for a NASA Mars Chopper mission to explore Eastern Noctis Labyrinthus. The region presents extreme terrain ideally traversed by rotorcraft. Although Ingenuity would not be […]
Posted inAstrogeology, Biosignatures & Paleobiology, Imaging & Spectroscopy, Mapping, Geodesy, Cartography, Bathymetry, Mars, Missions & Hardware, Press Release, ROVs/Submersibles/Diving
Mars Perseverance Rover Reaches Top Of Jezero Crater Rim
NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover has crested the top of Jezero Crater’s rim at a location the science team calls “Lookout Hill” and rolling toward its first science stop after the […]
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Towards Autonomous Surface Missions on Ocean Worlds
Through advanced autonomy testbed programs, NASA is setting the groundwork for one of its top priorities—the search for signs of life and potentially habitable bodies in our solar system and […]
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Ocean Planet Exploration Droids: Autonomous eDNA Collection Using An Uncrewed Surface Vessel
The collection of environmental DNA (eDNA) samples is often laborious, costly, and logistically difficult to accomplish at high frequency in remote locations and over large geographic areas.
Posted inEnceladus, Europa, Exploration Gear & Tech, Icy Worlds, Reports, Roadmaps, & Plans, Robotics/Rovers/UAVs, Status Report, Water/Hycean Worlds & Oceanography
NASA’s SWIM Robot on Glacial Ice in Alaska
A model of a tiny, wedge-shaped robot designed to explore subsurface oceans of icy moons, right, sits beside a large waterproof capsule containing electronics and sensors for testing below glacial […]
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Mars Perseverance Rover Has Some Astrobiology Ink: A DNA Tattoo
Editor’s note: of course, this rover has a prime mission task of conducting Astrobiology research on Mars i.e. according to NASA it: “searches for signs of ancient microbial life, to […]
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NASA’s SWIM Submersible Droid Prototypes
Two prototypes for a NASA mission concept called SWIM (short for Sensing With Independent Micro-swimmers) are arranged beside a much smaller nonfunctioning model representing the final envisioned size of the […]