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On March 20, 2004, NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity used a wheel to dig a trench revealing subsurface...
Digging by NASA Phoenix Mars Lander on Aug. 23, 2008, reached a depth about three times greater than in any trench...
This view from the navigation camera on NASA Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity shows tracks left by backing out of...
This test using an engineering model of the InSight lander here on Earth shows how the spacecraft on Mars will use...
This image shows the evolution of the trench called Snow White that NASA Phoenix Mars Lander began digging on the...
This image was taken by NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander's Robotic Arm Camera (RAC) on the ninth Martian day of the...
The annotated area of Mars in this illustration holds near-surface water ice that would be easily accessible for...
Two rambunctious young stars are destroying their natal dust cloud with powerful jets of radiation, in an infrared...
NASA's Mars InSight lander recently moved its robotic arm closer to the heat probe's digging device, called the...
While a test rover rolls off a plywood surface into a prepared bed of soft soil, rover team members Colette Lohr...
Mars Exploration Rover team members on July 21, 2009, tested how altering the order in which individual wheels turn...
NASA Mars rover Curiosity used a mechanism on its robotic arm to dig up five scoopfuls of material from a patch of...
This anaglyph image, acquired by NASA’s Phoenix Lander’s Surface Stereo Imager on June 1, 2008, shows a stereoscopic...
This footage from Aug. 19, 2019, shows a replica of InSight scraping soil with a scoop on the end of its robotic arm...
NASA astronaut Andre Douglas uses a scoop to dig into the ground to collect geologic samples during a simulated...
Students from San Diego State College prepare their robotic miner for its second turn to dig in the mining arena...
Students from the University of Alabama prepare their robotic miner for its turn to dig in the mining arena during...
The robotic miner from Mississippi State University digs in the mining arena during NASA's 8th Annual Robotic Mining...
Students from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte prepare their robotic miner for its turn to dig in the...
A robotic miner digs in the mining arena during NASA's 8th Annual Robotic Mining Competition at the Kennedy Space...
College teams prepare their robotic miners for their turn to dig in the mining arena during NASA’s LUNABOTICS...
The University of New Hampshire’s robotic miner is placed on a cart to record its measurements and weight before the...
Students from Miami-Dade College at Kendall prepare their robotic miner for its turn to dig in the mining arena...
Students from Purdue University prepare their robotic miner for its turn to dig in the mining pit during NASA’s...