rovers and stuff like that and that's where they they can get um 30 to 40%
The rovers , even though one is much larger than the other, they're both rolling along at 10 meters per day on average.
Our Rovers are there.
So landing rovers on Mars has been actually very challenging.
There were two rovers .
So with two rovers on opposite sides, in a days period, always one would be working.
that the rovers are seeing, which is Mars time, as opposed to the time that the actual scientists are seeing, which is Earth Pasadena time.
With the rovers being solar powered, it wasn't technically necessary that they only work during the day when the sun is up,
Because our rovers on Mars-- so let me tell you how fast Curiosity runs.
We've had rovers rolling around at least one of them.
And now we have rovers .
There's five rovers and vehicles there.
to those rovers .
And they sent many rovers to the red planet, some of which are still roaming today with all of their programs inside of them.
And we have little rovers that run around in this yard.
Think of the Mars Rovers for that.
and the Mars exploration rovers where, even with a 20 minute time delay, and relatively limited data bandwidth, the scientists who
We landed these rovers on Mars in big fat parking lots, for the most part.
Some of the rovers are moving.
with the Rovers and others -- since 1976, actually, we've been sending equipment to Mars.
So we use our rovers as our robotic explorers to be able to learn about the chemistry and the mineralogy of rocks on Mars.
- Of all the rovers ' many discoveries, the most important might be the existence of organic compounds in Martian soil, because organic compounds are the carbon-based molecules
England unless the Land Rovers were garaged in a locked facility because they were being stolen too frequently so that's
insure Land Rovers that weren't garaged and locked facilities because of electronic theft that if the insurance companies start to notice that certain
But all of the prior rovers -- for example, if just focus on Mars, all of the previous missions, the goal was first to see,
to the landing of the rovers .
They would do so using two rovers that were solar powered, landing them in two specific spots on opposite sides of Mars, and remotely operating them
You guys probably know even sending rovers to Mars-- you may not know that we've kind of had three styles of these rovers .
We exchanged our chariots for Range Rovers and Jaguars and high end, expensive cars.
And sometimes we get lucky and send rovers or landers.
Her work on the Mars Rovers is done from a cubicle at the nearby Los Alamos National Laboratory.
See, Mars rovers all need complex sky cranes to land, but a helicopter is different.
The sitters have more neural complexity than the rovers .
The sitters have more neural complexity than the rovers .
But most of my talk is about doing this with rovers , and orbiters, and so forth.
second but this doesn't look like any of the Mars rovers not even a little bit I mean it's tall and the solar rays in the
at up into into space uh Moon Landers are Mars rovers and
As we went through from the Mars Exploration Rovers to the Phoenix Lander to Mars Science Laboratory,
and repurposed actually software that was developed for the Mars rovers , and repurposed that for managing the data coming down
So it's been estimated that what our very best rovers do-- Mars rovers -- do in a week a human geologist could do in
And so these are the guys that fund the rovers on Mars and the Hubble and the Webb Space Telescope, and do a lot of great stuff.
He is the principle investigator of the Mars Exploration Rovers and the head of the NASA Advisory Council.
They're looking at shutting down Cassini and rovers on Mars.
This is sort of the monster truck of the rovers .
'Cause I think the reason we love those tiny little rovers on Mars was because they belonged to all of us.
And so there were millions of people interested in those Martian rovers .
What you might know is that when the Rovers landed several years ago on Mars, the original plan was to transmit data direct to Earth.
They reprogrammed the Rovers and the satellites to do store-and-forward relay back to Earth at 128 kilobits a second using a different
wonder of watching, for instance NASA rovers land on the surface of Mars and actually begin observing these very foreign environments.
And so the fruit flies, sitters versus rovers .