The boom that holds Odyssey’s gamma ray spectrometer (GRS) sensor head was successfully deployed, marking the mission’s last major technical milestone. Read about how this will help Odyssey in its…
Tag: Robotics
On June 30 and July 1, 54 teams of middle and high school robot-builders will compete in the upcoming Botball 2002 National Robot Tournament in Norman, OK. The event is…
Check out the Mars Exploration website to learn about the infrared images from Mars Odyssey that suggest Mars experienced a series of environmental changes during active geological periods in its…
It will take a lot of people to make the Mars Exploration Rover mission a success–and many of them are women! Through the “Women Working on Mars” webcast on May…
The Imagine Mars project uses the arts and humanities to open the door to scientific discovery for students and teachers who might not otherwise be exposed to the excitement of…
Robotic Autonomy
Students from four countries had a chance to learn about and control FIDO, the prototype Mars rover in JPL’s Mars Yard as part of the Planetary Society’s Red Rover Goes…
The science instruments on NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft, which began its mapping mission last week, have sent back some exciting initial data, including possible identification of significant amounts of frozen…
The ROVer Ranch is an interactive, Web-based robotics workshop for assembling the hardware and instructions for making a software robot to perform a mission in a virtual environment.
It takes a large, diverse group of people and machines to work on getting to Mars and learning more about it. Visit the Mars Exploration Spotlight page to learn about…
