| + NASA Homepage+ NASA en Español+ Marte en Español+ Mars Home+ MER Home**List of All Features****30-May-2003****Wheels in the Sky**                                 When Chris Voorhees thinks about wheels, he doesn't imagine the rubber hitting the road, but aluminum crawling across the surface of Mars.  In fact, he has already seen some of his handiwork making its way across the red planet.                                   ***Read More...*****14-Jan-2003****Mars and the Final Four**                                 The launch dates for the two Mars Exploration Rovers are getting closer and so is the need to pick a place for them to land.                                 ***Read More...*****12-Nov-2002****Mars Rover Takes Baby Steps**                           Like any travelers worth their frequent flyer miles, the twin rovers of the Mars Exploration Rover Mission must prepare for a long journey. Unlike airline passengers, however, the rovers won't have an attentive flight crew to tend to their needs. Instead, the twins face a daunting 460 million kilometer (286 million mile) voyage to Mars. ***Read More...*****25-Mar-2002****How to Land Softly on a Hard Planet**                           Just one of the many problems in landing on another planet, after it's                            been determined where to land and the method to get there, is landing                            safely.  For NASA'a Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a safe landing is                            "the name of the game," as engineers work to prepare                            two rovers for the journey to Mars.                           ***Read More...*****06-Mar-2002****Student Navigators Drive Mars Rover Testbed**                           Intense discussion, various viewpoints, chairs being scooted around,                            slightly raised voices, and eventual consensus:  just a typical meeting of                            scientists in the lab; in this case a rover lab at NASA's Jet                            Propulsion Laboratory.                           ***Read More...*****16-Jan-2002****Steve Alfery - Dealing for Rover Wheeling on Mars**                           No banks, stock exchanges or other financial institutions are known to                            exist on Mars.  So how does a business and economics graduate of the                            University of California at Santa Barbara end up in a key role on a mission                            to the red planet?                           ***Read More...*****Team Member****Role****Mission**                                        Steve Alfery                                    acquisitions representative                                        2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission**27-Dec-2001****Project Scientist for the Mars Exploration Rover Mission**                                                        Dr. Joy Crisp of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory devotes her time working to unearth answers about Mars' geology.  Tucked away in her prefab trailer office in the middle of the JPL campus, she enables the efforts of the team of scientists whose instruments will be onboard two rovers destined to land on Mars in 2004.                                                          ***Read More...*****Team Member****Role****Mission**                                        Dr. Joy Crisp                                    geologist                                        2003 Mars Exploration Rover Mission**Dec-2001****Where to Land on Mars?**                                                Of all the places to land on Mars, where in the world should twin rovers go? This question has been on the front burner of discussion with Mars scientists who have the arduous task of selecting a site where it is safe to land.                                                ***Read More...*****Dec-2001****If Santa Were a Martian**                                                If Santa Claus were a martian, he'd be in for one bumpy ride.                                                                                                That's the assessment of navigators and engineers controlling the flight of NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft as it presently flies four times daily above the north polar region of Mars.                                                ***Read More...*****19-Nov-2001****Machinists to the Stars**                                                It's the middle of the night at JPL, and the usual dozens of deer are on their nightly foraging rounds across the campus. Mars is up. So is the Moon. And so are nine machinists in the lab's high-precision fabrication shop, working the second shift that ends between midnight and 3 a.m.                                                 ***Read More...*****Team Member****Role****Mission**                                        Gary Keel                                        night shift supervisor fabrication shop                                        2003 Mars Exploration Rover                                           Mike Mangano                                        mechanical systems project element manager                                        2003 Mars Exploration Rover  + Freedom of Information Act+ The President's Management Agenda+ FY 2002 Agency Performance and                              accountability report+ NASA Privacy Statement, Disclaimer, and                              Accessiblity Certification+ Freedom to Manage                           Last Updated: + Comments and Questions |
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