This rover prototype, designed by NASA’s Atacama Rover Astrobiology Drilling Studies, or ARADS, team, is helping test the tools and…
The ARADS rover was designed with a potential life-detection mission to Mars in mind and is equipped with a drill…
This rover is being put through its paces in California, at NASA’s Ames Research Center, before “graduating” to the very…
This week in 2007, the space shuttle Atlantis, mission STS-117, landed at Edwards Air Force Base following the completion of…
A sandy soil sample pours into the collection scoop, in this close-up of the ARADS life-detection rover at work during…
The ARADS rover prototype features a robotic arm that is programmed to collect soil samples from the rover’s drill and…
The Atacama Desert in Chile is one of the driest places on Earth. However, a rare rain event did occur…
At the top of the ARADS rover, seen here during testing in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is a gray cylinder that…
A spinning brush sweeps soil off the ARADS rover’s drill into a sample jar.
Linda Kobayashi, an electrical engineer on the ARADS team, helps install an instrument on the rover from below.
