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Meet GROVER the Rover, Set For Greenland Exploration
A GROVER prototype during testing in January 2013. Credit: Gabriel Trisca, Boise State University
How fast is Greenland’s ice sheet melting in response to climate change, and how is it recovering? A new NASA rover with the friendly name of GROVER (Greeland Rover and Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research) is going to try to figure that out.
GROVER will rove across a small area of the massive ice sheet at a location called Summit Camp, which is a National Science Foundation outpost. On board it has ground-penetrating radar that is intended to figure out how the snow builds up in layers through time.
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© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2013. |
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/101958/meet-grover-the-rover-set-for-greenland-exploration/
