Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover has been put into "safe mode" after a computer glitch caused by corrupted files.
If the thing has been built with components from the Mars Rover, a bit of heat and dust shouldn't faze it.
The Mars rover will spend the next few days continuing its testing of the many complex instruments on board.
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They enable Mars Rover Curiosity to search for water and life and tell people on Earth what they find.
Looking like a sportier version of NASA's Mars Rover, the first wireless, Web-connected robot sees, hears and speaks for you.
But the excitement spread far beyond NASA locations: Parties in honor of the Mars rover landing were scheduled around the world.
But when NASA's newest Mars rover, Curiosity, lands on the Red Planet next week, scientists hope to unlock a few more.
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Nasa's Mars rover Curiosity has used its brush tool for the first time to sweep dust off the surface of a rock.
Mars rover Curiosity has found the remnants of an ancient streambed on Mars, providing still more evidence that water once flowed freely there.
RealD's cutting-edge 3D technologies have been used for applications such as piloting the Mars Rover, heads-up displays for military jets and robotic medical procedures.
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Recently, the Mars rover Curiosity took its first whiff of the Martian air, but found no sign of methane or other organic molecules.
"But of course we'll be ramping up again as we approach 2020 and the next Mars rover, " said Beth Robinson, the agency's chief financial officer.
The 2, 000-pound Mars rover Curiosity made its landing on Mars on August 6, 2012, and has been sending back fascinating images and data ever since.
He had spent three years at NASA's Ames Research Center, where he did the early work on the artificial intelligence that steered the Mars Rover.
These observations contrast sharply with the findings of Mars rover Opportunity, which landed on a different part of Mars in 2004 and is still chugging along.
"We're about to start a major project with the UK Space Agency, putting our sensors onto things like landing vehicles for the Mars rover, " Mr Howard said.
If China, Russia or anyone else for that matter launched a Mars rover and we were watching robot wars millions of miles away, we'd be in space heaven.
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Mr. McCOLLOM: We now have this tremendous data set that's being returned by the Mars rover that--I mean, we wouldn't have any debates if that data wasn't there.
See more images sent by the rover:The 2, 000-pound Mars rover Curiosity made its landing on Mars on August 6, 2012, and has been sending back fascinating images and data ever since.
And in the case of the Mars rover missions, these raw collections also allow anyone with the right software to start to build their own panoramas of the Red Planet.
Added to that eye-widening pub fact is that the heat insulation applied liberally to the engine bay and underside is a substance called 'Aerogel' - a compound formulated by NASA to insulate the Mars Rover.
Baty also points to the fact that Cal Tech manages the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the federally funded NASA research and development center that has been in the news for its Mars Rover robotic space mission.
According to Makerbot, the most well known in a crop of companies developing low cost 3D printers, the technology is being used by NASA engineers to develop parts for models, including for the Mars Rover, Curiosity.
Wind River (nasdaq: WIND - news - people ) specializes in so-called device software, the fast, small operating systems and middleware that go into all sorts of noncomputer smart devices, from digital video recorders to industrial robots and the Mars Rover.
The latter is using the web service to capture and store images and metadata collected from the Mars Exploration Rover and Mars Science Laboratory missions.
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Before Curiosity, NASA's big rover project was the Mars Exploration Rover Mission: two golf-cart-sized rovers called Spirit and Opportunity.
Now, the Mars Curiosity rover is making an appearance in the wildly successful bird-flinging simulation.
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At this very hour, the Mars exploration rover Spirit is searching for evidence of life beyond the Earth.
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