rovers
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Monster Machines: Battery-Powered Yeti Guides Antarctic Explorers
Moving people and supplies across the Great White South is treacherous, difficult and expensive, with logistical costs constituting as much as 90 per cent of an expedition’s budget — about $US125,000 a trip on average. And that’s assuming the convoy isn’t swallowed by an ice crevasse en route. This new radar-equipped rover could help the…
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Was This Photo Of The Mars Curiosity Rover Taken By An Alien Or What?
This is, without a doubt, the best photo of NASA’s Mars rover Curiosity. Taken on a Martian flat spot called John Klein, the image was just published by scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It looks she asked someone passing by to take her camera and shoot the picture.
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Meet ATHLETE, NASA’s Next Robot Moon Walker
To build and supply a lunar base, astronauts will need heavy-duty space trucks for transporting gear. There’s just one problem: no roads. That’s why NASA engineers designed the rover they call ATHLETE (All-Terrain Hex-Limbed Extra-Terrestrial Explorer)-to handle any terrain, whether dusty, rocky or crater-y.
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Mars Rover To Study Mysterious Pyramid Rock
NASA’s Curiosity has its first analysis target: an intriguing rock with a pyramidal shape that is now 2.5m from the rover’s current location. The scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory are excited about this and other features discovered by the rover’s cameras.