Monday, May 1, 2017

How To Not Break A Mars Rover

Tom Scott visits the Mars Yard! Video here.

The Mars Yard, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is one of the closest simulations of Mars that we’ve got. Admittedly, there’s a bit more atmosphere and gravity, but it’s the only way to test what might happen before sending commands to a rover that’s light-minutes away.

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