universetoday.com — If you've looked at the high resolution HiRISE images from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or had the chance to explore the new Google Mars, you know Mars is fraught with craters, mountains, gullies, and all sorts of interesting – and dangerous – terrain. Areas such as these with layered deposits, sediments, fracturing and faulting are just the ty
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valisk61Feb 5, 2009
Didn't that thing win series 3 of Robot Wars?
ichbinladenFeb 5, 2009
Two words: anal probes.
Closed AccountFeb 6, 2009
I respect your disagreement. But counter that a robot can also turn over rocks, cut them open, analyze them, and send high definition stereoptical video in many different spectrums back to people on Earth, where many people can analyze the data with their many brains. Said robot can also pick up some rocks, put them in a rocket, and send them back to Earth for further study. All for a tiny fraction of what it would have cost for a person to do the same thing, and nobody gets stranded or dies a terrible death.And yes, we have explored our whole planet, the entirety of which is blessed with an environment that suits us really well compared to what we find outside of it.All that said, I do look forward (in the grand, species-oriented sense) to a time when we're able to terraform Mars and send people there to live in a manner befitting human beings.
laserenaFeb 6, 2009
A video of this bot is here: <a class="user" href="http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=806">http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/video/index.cfm?id=806</a>