Current Mars rovers travel a few kilometers per year. Future rovers will need to travel a couple orders of magnitude faster than that in order to move from safe landing zones to areas of scientific interest - which may be many 10s of kilometers away from a suitable landing location. This paper describes a recent field test of the SR-II rover. SR-II is a 22 kg solar powered autonomous rover, which during a week long traverse through rough Mars-like terrain was able to cover almost a kilometer per day.
Roving faster farther cheaper
Geländeerkundung schneller, weiter und kostengünstiger
2008
10 Seiten, 5 Bilder, 9 Quellen
Conference paper
English
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