Rover
Hybrids Are the Future, Even on Titan
Here's hoping some Texan with oil money to spend will take up the challenge of exploring the Saturnian moon with HyTAQ, a brilliant quadrotor concept.
Autonomous, Curiosity-Like Rovers Are Scouring the Earth's Poles
While Curiosity gets the limelight and the press love, its terrestrial cousins sadly and stoically wander onward, quietly obtaining valuable data about the Earth's poles.
Compared To Past Mars Rovers, Curiosity Is Cruising
Curiosity took it's first drive this week, and it was way simpler than the rover that roved before.
This Is What Landing on Mars Looks Like
The sight of dust billowing as the Curiosity rover touches down delivers an eerie, awed chill.
Curiosity's First Laser Test Was A Success, So What's Next?
After 15 sols, Curiosity is ready to roll. Here's the plan.
What the Mars Rover Landing Looked Like To Someone Who Actually Built It
NASA's done a fine job of documenting its big Martian landing last week - that little YouTube "robot copyright hiccup":http://motherboard.vice.com/2012/8/6/nasa-s-mars-rover-crashed-into-a-dmca-takedown notwithstanding. But one of NASA JPL's engineers...
YouTube, We Have a Problem
NASA’s livestream coverage of the Curiosity rover’s landing on Mars was practically as flawless as the landing itself, a refreshing alternative to all that troubled Olympics coverage. All that can stop the Curiosity rover now are Martians—and weird...
Mars Is Hard: A Chat With Jim Adams
What's it like landing the Mars rover? Absolutely insane. The deputy chief technologist at NASA tells us it's a real 'nail biter.'
From Eight Months to Seven Minutes: NASA's Jim Adams on Mars' Curiosity
In less than 24 hours we'll know whether the Mars Curiosity Rover, the next in NASA's line of vehicles designed to probe one of Earth's closest planetary neighbors, plummeted to the Martian surface as it's been programmed to, or not. Jim Adams is...
Letter from NASA: Some Things You Need to Know About the Mars Rover
h4. “Probably the overall biggest risk is our lack of imagination.” _— "Steven Lee":http://www.nature.com/news/7-minutes-of-terror-1.11089, System Manager, Guidance, Navigation and Control at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)_ The last time the...