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Future Games: Astronauts Tele-Operate An Earth-Bound Rover … From Space!
The K10 Black planetary rover during a Surface Telerobotics Operational Readiness Test at NASA’s Ames Research Center. Credit: NASA/Dominic Hart
Astronauts, start your rover engines. Two astronauts recently remote-controlled a rover vehicle in California from their perch on the International Space Station — about 250 miles (400 kilometers) overhead.
The concept is cool in itself, but NASA has loftier aims. It’s thinking about those moon and asteroid and Mars human missions that the agency would really like to conduct one day, if it receives the money and authorization.
Potentially, say, you could have a Mars crew using rovers to explore as much of the surface as possible in a limited time.
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© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2013. |
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Source: http://www.universetoday.com/103844/future-games-astronauts-tele-operate-an-earth-bound-rover-from-space/
