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…
Tag: Robotics
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…
Ever wonder what came before the Mars Pathfinder rover, Sojourner? Which rovers will be the next to explore the surface of Mars? Check out this timeline and the cool pictures…
Find out how the Canadian Space Agency (CSA) lent a hand to the International Space Station. You can also learn about how the Mobile Base System and the Special Purpose…
