Tail winds might account for some of the off-target distance, NASA's Gavin Mendeck said, but the actual landing spot was well within the expected range of uncertainty, or the area where the rover could well have ended up.
The Curiosity rover discovered that the chemistry of ancient Mars could have supported simple microbes more than three billion years ago, about the time that life first arose on Earth, scientists from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration said Tuesday.
If the huge rover performs as advertised, it could generate excitement among the American public and, perhaps, the politicians who hold NASA's purse strings.
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In her rearview mirror she could see the guy in the Range Rover glaring at her through his polarized sunglasses and switching his cell phone to the opposite hand so he could give her the finger, but she didn't dwell on his opinion of her for more than a moment.
If any bacteria have survived the decontamination and the journey to Mars, they could cast doubt on whatever the rover might find.
Jokingly dubbed "Grandma's house" by the crew, the rover spent over 11 Martian days there so that handlers could take some time off for the holidays.
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Landing the Curiosity rover on Mars was a big feat for NASA, but we could not have done it without the work of small businesses.
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The 2014 Land Rover Range Rover Sport looks like it could do that.
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The company bought Rover because its board doubted whether it could survive as a niche firm, then making around 600, 000 cars a year.
Merely moving a few feet to poke a rock could take three days, with the rover snapping pictures of its arm from every angle.
If a firm does less than 15% with MG Rover, it could still benefit from aid in the form of business advice being offered by the Welsh Assembly Government.
Using its science tools, the rover will test for organic molecules, which would indicate the planet could have once hosted life.
It would make more sense for the rover to hand the whole file over to a lander, which could pass it in chunks to orbiting relay satellites for transmission home.
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The students were interested in building a rover and approached Koenig about whether a rover could aid her studies of snow accumulation on ice sheets.
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But are there cranky little people who think the rover's camera is weak and has poor battery life, and "could have done it better" in their basements?
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And Volvo could certainly learn more about prestige from the likes of Jaguar and Land Rover.
That would leave a small, mobile craft that could maneuver on thrusters alone, hover near the surface, and lower the rover down.
They could easily have bought a new Range Rover elsewhere in a bigger city, but they enjoyed the experience of coming to our shop and felt they were getting great service.
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