This is how The Terminator gets started, I'm sure.
*A barmy method by which they fell out of the sky surrounded by airbags before bouncing to a halt.
21.6.07
Giant Robots
Phoenix is the next Mars rover lander to be launched (in August, I believe), but after that (at the end of 2009) we have Mars Science Laboratory. Now, if I already knew that the reason these two landers aren't touching down the same way the current two Mars rovers did* is because they are too large, I never took on board just how bloody enormous MSL is going to be. Take a look at Emily Lakdawalla's post on the Planetary Society blog here, including images and video of the MSL 'mobility model'.
This is how The Terminator gets started, I'm sure.
*A barmy method by which they fell out of the sky surrounded by airbags before bouncing to a halt.
This is how The Terminator gets started, I'm sure.
*A barmy method by which they fell out of the sky surrounded by airbags before bouncing to a halt.
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Now you've got me curious too, I shall have to go and look up the project to see how they will be landing those. A suitable task for the weekend.
This may be of interest, in that case.
Phoenix will be landing using thrusters, in a pretty similar fashion to the Viking landers. (And I now realise that Phoenix is a lander and not a rover. Whoops!)
Hmm, I think pink recycling trucks would be great home bases for invading mobile lab terminators. Invasion of the Body Snatchers, anyone?
Cool. What a strange idea (lowered on cables). I presume that the inventors were fans of Thunderbirds.
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