Maxar Technologies has signed a contract with NASA to deliver a robotic arm called Sample Acquisition, Morphology Filtering and Probing of Lunar Regolith (SAMPLR). The arm – which will be used to acquire samples and determine the geotechnical properties of lunar regolith – is built from flight spare components from the Mars Exploration Rover mission involving Spirit and Opportunity.
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For the second time in its career, NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity is hunkering down…
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Year In Review, 2017 (Part II): Rovers, orbiters peel away Mars’ secrets & reveal new mysteries
For solar and space weather science, 2017 was a major boon to understanding how Coronal…
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From the orbits of the inner solar system to the surface of Mars. Â For Curiosity…
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Mars dominated planetary research headlines in 2014 as an international fleet of orbiters and NASA’s…
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Ten years ago, 25 January 2004, the Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity slammed into the Martian…
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Eight years ago today (January 25, 2004), the Mars Exploration Rover -B (MER -B) slammed…