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HTTP:: Free Spirit Efforts Augmented with Computer Model
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As the months go by, it becomes painfully obvious to all those involved with getting Spirit out of its predicament that it isn't going to be an easy task. Though they knew from day one that it was going to be very difficult to remove the rover from the loose patch of Martian soil called Troy, engineers at NASA's jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), in Pasadena, California, are now beginning to reach the limits of their testing abilities. Therefore, they have now created a computer model, in which they feed all data collected from the two test rovers that simulate Spirit's conditions in Troy. The detailed computer model of the rover's mobility is meant to augment the test drives themselves. The researchers constantly add data collected from the sandbox robots, in an attempt to increase the simulation's accuracy. The main target of these efforts is to pinpoint the limits of Spirit's mobility on the Red Planet. “The computer modeling will allow us to connect the results from te!
sts performed in Earth gravity with what to expect from the rover in Mars gravity,” JPL expert John Callas, who is the MER project manager, explains. “An additional round of testing was added to the September schedule to gain more detailed assessment of how to move Spirit while avoiding putting the rover's center of ...
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