NASA will begin testing GROVER in Greenland tomorrow. If all goes accordingly, scientists will use the earthbound rover this summer to relay data relating to the region's ice sheets.
When you send a robot to Mars, you've got to make sure it can handle the terrain without getting itself stuck. That requires a pretty robust vehicle. But you also want to be able to collect samples, and those...
We've sent the Phoenix lander to Mars, now it's time to send the Moonstream bus-sized rover. Anthony Sims, a student at the Art Center College of Design, conceptualized the Moonstream rover after forms found in nature, such as turtles...