Next-Gen Space Rovers Do Acrobatics, Look Like Medieval Weapons
Exploration Hedgehogs The mother spacecraft Phobos Surveyor, at left, would deploy its “hedgehogs” across the surface of the Martian moon. Stanford Department of Aeronautics and AstronauticsThe spiky space balls are nicknamed “hedgehogs,” though they’ll act more like acrobats, leaping and tumbling across the surface of moons and asteroids. NASA’s past few Mars rovers have been friendly robots with head-like masts and cameras for eyes, easily anthropomorphized and adored. The next generation might be deci…
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