[Dimitris Platis] wanted to develop an affordable platform for experimenting with rovers, but the cheap plastic chassis he was using ... controlling your little rover either remotely or autonomously.

Aug. 6, 2012 — -- Curiosity, NASA's $2.5 billion Mars Science Laboratory rover ... by low-resolution navigation cameras on the rover's chassis, meant to show the ship's location and condition ...

The nuclear-powered rover is being designed to assess whether Mars ever was, or is still today, an environment able to support microbial life. On one hand, MSL closes out an intensive period of ...

The rover is part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission which tested a novel landing method that saw the spacecraft descend on a parachute before its landing system fired up its rockets and ...

Compared to Sojourner, the dowdy little robot that tooled around on Mars for three months in 1997, the atomic-powered Mars Science Laboratory rover being built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in ...

After nearly a decade of planning, several cost overruns and a two-year delay, NASA is finally set to launch its next Mars rover this week. The car-size Curiosity rover, the centerpiece of NASA's ...

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For NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, the real fun will start 50 seconds before touchdown when the one-ton nuclear-powered rover falls free of its parachute for a nail-biting rocket-powered final ...

When NASA's newest Mars rover dives into the Martian atmosphere next year, it will be cocooned in the largest "beat the heat" system ever sent to the Red Planet.

The delivery of Nasa's Mars Science Laboratory rover, external, known as Curiosity, to the surface of the Red Planet is a mouth-watering prospect. The $2.5bn robot is by far the most capable ...

The Mars Science Laboratory is the most expensive and complex lander ever sent to the red planet, a nuclear-powered rover that will scale a 3-mile-tall mountain to seek the building blocks of life.

The MSL landing was “easily the largest live event we’ve ever had,” the agency said. The Curiosity rover team’s Bobak “Mohawk Guy” Ferdowsi became a media sensation, if fleetingly ...