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While NASA's InSight spacecraft landed on Mars, thrusters on the bottom of the spacecraft churned up the soil...
NASA’s ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx) testbed filming with the Swamp Works team
Chuquicamata, in Chile's Atacama Desert, is the largest open pit copper mine in the world, by excavated volume. The...
This map of Mars indicates locations of new craters that have excavated ice blue and those that have not red. Albedo...
This color image from NASA Curiosity rover shows an area excavated by the blast of the Mars Science Laboratory...
This NAC image from MESSENGER’s second Mercury flyby shows a crater with a set of light-colored rays radiating...
A team from the Granular Mechanics and Regolith Operations lab who developed and tested NASA’s ISRU Pilot Excavator...
NASA’s ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx) performs a simulated lunar mission in a testbed at the agency’s Kennedy Space...
NASA’s ISRU Pilot Excavator (IPEx) performs a simulated lunar mission in a testbed at the agency’s Kennedy Space...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the "Lunarena" at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a remote controlled or...
University students prepare their team's remote controlled or autonomous excavator, called a lunabot, to maneuver in...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- University students prepare their remote controlled or autonomous excavator, called a...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Inside the "Lunarena" at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex is a remote controlled or...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- University students prepare their remote controlled or autonomous excavator, called a...
Thrusters under NASA's InSight lander churned up soil during landing on Mars. This image shows two pits excavated by...
A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141...
A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141...
A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141...
A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141...
A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141...
A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141...
A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141...
A Volvo Crawler Excavator severs the airframe, separating the tail section from the fuselage, of the modified C-141...
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - University students gather for the opening ceremony of NASA's first Lunabotics Mining...