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Could a roly-poly, wind-powered rover soon zip across Mars?
Michael Cooney Layer 8 on Wed, 06/02/10
Could a spherical, wind-driven rover be prowling the Mars surface in the future?
"Such a spacecraft is being looked at courtesy of a computer model project at North Carolina State University that lets engineers design all manner of space vehicle designs.
The so-called tumbleweed rover is getting a lot of attention as NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Langley Research Center have also looked at the design, which would feature a spherical wind-driven rover designed to explore the geology of the Martian surface. According to researchers, rovers that could roll over the surface of Mars like a tumbleweed, quickly covering vast distances- have been discussed for more than 10 years, but so far there has been no consensus on exactly what that vehicle should look like..."
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