Mars sample return mission

Dr. Gu says “It is a fully autonomous robot, that is in line with a future mars sample return mission.” with a straight face as if that is no big deal. Just that statement alone explains the huge difference between robotics in high school and college. Fully autonomous means that there is no human contact at all, and the robot will drive and think on its own. In high school the autonomous robots run through a list of commands that will complete a specific task with a person doing the calculations, and writing the commands for the robot to do to complete the task. In other words the person is the brains behind the program to the robot and not the robot. WVU’s robot is the brain operating the robot, not a person. They created algorithms that take information from cameras and sensors on the robot, then the robot uses this information to make its own decisions of when, where, what, and how to complete the task. Dr. Gu explains that Cataglyphis “goes around the park, finds and picks up 10 samples of different types off the ground with different degrees of difficulty, then the robot has to return these samples to the base where it started all without pre-programmed points, it thinks on its…

Colonizing Mars: Must or Bust? For the better part of the last century, the thought of landing man outside our planet has been an inviting target for international space agencies, distinction seeking engineers, grandeur adventurists, and dreamers of all ages. Carrying on the momentum from the Space Race and mankind's giant leap towards the moon, the next great phase in our mission to colonize outer space has been the Red Planet, Mars. The fact of the matter, however, is that the amount of…

Space Missions Humans are expected to travel to Mars in 2030 for the first time, guided by NASA’s hand. In the article, “Do You Have What it Takes to Colonize Mars? NASA Might Need You” and “America Will Take the Giant Leap to Mars” both authors write about NASA’s future plans of going to space. NASA also said the space mission would not be carried out though if there wasn 't proper safety measures. Space missions could be the turning point of history, but do the risks outweigh the benefits?…

has had a number of astronauts walk on the moon, but what about mars? The idea of a manned-mission to mars has intrigued thousands of minds, but like me, lots have turned it down. I don’t think a manned-mission to mars is a good idea, due to physical, logical, and financial needs. Undeniably, a mission to mars would be too physically challenging. First, adapting to the climate would cause trouble. For example, the average temperature on mars is -61 degrees Fahrenheit. Since the average…

technology are going to do amazing things for the future. The Orion spacecraft is the biggest development as of right now. The Orion spacecraft is a shuttle that is going to be used to go to Mars. New advances have been made inside and outside of the shuttle in order for us to learn more about the mysterious planet of Mars. Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. The distance from Earth to Mars depends on where you measure it from. The closest known approach was in 2003. At that time it was…

boundaries of this frontier by focusing on Earth’s nearest planet, Mars, and in particular astronomers have researched the possibility of a manned missions to Mars. This proposal seriously began with Wernher von Braun, the first person to conduct a detailed technical study of a Mars mission in 1952 . The quest for Mars soon heated up during the Space Race between the United States and Soviet Union, as both countries explored the possibility of such a program, although with very limited progress.…

It seems like there's always some new mission announcement or groundbreaking discovery on space exploration, but many times we never seem to hear anything more about it. usually it's because planning for and executing missions in outer space takes a huge amount of preparation, it's not uncommon to hear about a proposed mission 5, 10, even 20 years in advance, that being said, we do have some fascinating and exciting space missions lined up over the next few years and decades. let's take a look…

Kimberly Lum 1328600 ESS 102 AK Research Paper: Robotic Missions Synopsis: My sci-fi paper will detail a futuristic mission to Mars, several decades in the future. Previous rover missions have paved the way for a colony on Mars, and a human crew has at last been sent to the red planet to finish preparations for the settlement. Logistics such as rocket propulsion, humans in space, and robot-human missions will be included, as well as details concerning setting up a colony on Mars. Robot in…

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Mars, a planet that contains the possibility of allowing humans to live somewhere other than earth. However, this can lead to multiple questions as with the colonization of Mars will also lead to the beginning of a completely new society. This idea of a new martian society, will lead to questions about what laws,clocks, and calendars should this new Martian society use. Additionally, with the colonization of Mars also comes the concern of unknown diseases and illness that comes from living in a…