https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5 en-us 2019-03-28 14:20:55 UTC 2025-10-31 12:12:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/337039653/9775aee2f1010f5b03966d2e408b1a32/Snapchat_2057041606.jpg 23jk0926 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/345734715 Opportunity Rover was a robot that spent 15 years exploring the surface on Mars. Its mission finally ended in June 2018 when a dust storm hit it hard. It lasted much longer than NASA had expected to, and provided them with large amounts of data about water levels in the rocks and soil. Opportunity landed on Mars in January 2004 with its twin, Spirit. It reshaped scientists' understanding of the planet's evotion and potential to host life. ]]> 2019-03-27 14:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/345734715 23ah02361 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/345735437 The Mars Curiosity Rover is one of the two rovers that have been on Mars. As of January 20th, it has been on Mars for a staggering 2357 days. It will continue to last for some time. This article talks about how Curiosity ran into a few issues on mars due to a malfunction when rebooting. ]]> 2019-03-27 14:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/345735437 23rc09541 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/345917884 This article talks about how NASA uses robots to help their research around the world and around our solar system and beyond.]]> 2019-03-27 22:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/345917884 23rc09541 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346160796 The space probe that has gone beyond our galaxy. It has "made it about 12.5 billion miles from Earth since its launch in 1977" (Scientific American). The Voyager 1 will stop transmitting data by about 2025, meaning no data will flow back from that location. ]]> 2019-03-28 14:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346160796 23rc09541 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346164337 The Candarm is a robotic arm on the ISS. Its jobs, according to the Canadian Space Agency are to 

• Perform Station maintenance
• move supplies, equipment, Dextre and even astronauts
• perform "cosmic catches" by grappling visiting vehicles and berthing them to the ISS

]]> 2019-03-28 14:31:46 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346164337 23ik03531 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346166789 Pop-Up Flat Folding Explorer Robot (PUFFER) is a small robot which can fold itself to wedge into small spaces to further explore planets, these small robots can be deployed alongside a rover and gather more data. Several can be stacked by folding them like cards. PUFFER originated from a paper prototype which was developed by Karas While he was a grad student at UC Berkeley's Biomimetic Millisystem Lab. The robot has 2 wheels and a tail which is used for stabilization, PUFFER also has solar panels on it's belly which it can use to recharge by flipping over. For "sight" the robot uses a high-resolution microimager sensitive enough to see objects that are just 10 microns in size made by Distant Focus Corporation. The bot has a "skittering walk" that keeps the bot inching forward, one wheel at a time, without slipping this was made with a partnership between the Biomimetic Millisystems Lab and the PUFFER team. So far, the PUFFER has been tested at a ski resort in Grand Junction, Colorado; Big Bear, California; and on Mt. Erebus, an active volcano in Antarctica, it was successful in all of these tests. The bot can go about 2050 feet or 625 meters on one charge. PUFFER is till being developed as it still needs instruments to conduct research, and the team wants to add autonomy so that they can have a fleet of PUFFERS researching on the same planet together. The PUFFER already is made with Mars ready materials for example it uses Nomex which lets it withstand the high temperature on mars and is the materiel used in the balloons used to get Spirit and Opportunity to the surface of mars. A company called Pioneer Circuits, Santa Ana, California, helped integrate the Nomex into the folding circuit boards.]]> 2019-03-28 14:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346166789 23ah02361 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346169110 The International space station is a Space station that is shared with Canada,  Russia, USA, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Italy, Norway, Netherlands, Spain,  Switzerland, Sweden, and the UK.           ]]> 2019-03-28 14:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346169110 23rc09541 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346170308 NASA uses many types of robots to help them in space exploration, for example the Opportunity Rover was used to survey the land on Mars for signs of water. They they used Voyager 1 to explore space beyond our solar system and our galaxy. They also used robotics to help astronauts in the ISS, like the robotic arm that is used to move large objects around space. The Canadarm2 was used to grab the Hubble Space Telescope on five different space missions. Sometimes the robots can have different types of problems which can be hard to fix because it is hard to do repairs in space and will cost a lot of money. Our opinion is that robots have become an integral part of space exploration. Had has many benefits and those benefits outweigh the costs of the robots. So we should continue the development of these robots.]]> 2019-03-28 14:40:50 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346170308 23jk0926 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346176253 The Hubble Space Telescope was launched in 1990 and is vital to our extended discovery of space. It continues to take many fascinating pictures of many space phenomena.]]> 2019-03-28 14:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346176253 23jk0926 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346177981 The Spirit rover was launched together with Opportunity. It had a similar goal, only it landed on a different side of Mars]]> 2019-03-28 14:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346177981 23ah02361 https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346178755 This is a Mars pathfinder. It landed on Mars on July 4th 1997. It explored Mars for a total of 3 months. It had front and rear cameras. It was approximately the size of a microwave.]]> 2019-03-28 14:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/23ik03531/fb3aq234kvv5/wish/346178755