Sentence examples for traverse the surface from inspiring English sources

Now, a duplicate rover is rehearsing the first actual maneuvers of the most capable robot ever to traverse the surface of another world.

The target application for this method is a low-cost micro-rover scout on Mars that will autonomously traverse the surface and detect changes in the regolith cohesion and shearing resistance without the need for dedicated visual sinkage estimation on each wheel.

For the last year, the Mars Science Laboratory, aptly named Curiosity, has been traversing the surface of Gale Crater, poking and prodding rocks and soils and sniffing the atmosphere with each of the sophisticated science and sampling instruments we armed it with.

A study by Minetti [63] demonstrated that for a slope of 0.25 or less, traversing the surface directly was the best path.

During artificial periodic palpation of fine-grained textures, conical whiskers traversed the surface with complex micromotions, whereas cylindrical hair became trapped against the surface.

This paper presents the findings of testing terrestrially-created duricrusts with simulated Martian soil properties, in order to determine the properties of such duricrusts and to discover what level of hazard that they may represent (e.g. can vehicles traverse the duricrust surface without penetration to lower sub-surface soils?).

The nonlinear amplifying loop mirror includes an electronic polarisation controller with four quarter waveplates (QWPs), providing full-wave control and the ability to traverse the entire surface of the Poincaré sphere.

A landed mission with the ability to traverse the lunar surface is thus required to characterize the spatial distribution of lunar polar volatiles.

This new configuration provides an intrinsic phase amplification effect of over twofold by placing the SPR sensor head in a signal arm of the interferometer so that the interrogating optical beam will traverse the sensor surface infinite number of times.

But Opportunity and Spirit — with their arms and their eyes, the wheels that allowed them to traverse the Martian surface, and their relatively petite size — were especially easy to anthropomorphize.

During embryogenesis, type IIA procollagen is localized around cells of the developing ganglion cell layer [30], playing a role in guiding the axonal processes of the developing retinal ganglion cells as they traverse the retinal surface and converge to form the optic nerve bundle [31].