Tuesday, November 24, 2009

NASA Robotic Rocket Plane To Survey Martian Surface

NASA's Martian Rocket Plane courtesy of NASA

From Popular Science:

Since budget cuts and the inability to overcome problems like boredom and high radiation doses have ruled out any manned mission to Mars in the foreseeable future, NASA has shifted gears back towards a program of robotic exploration. To that end, NASA now wants a rocket-powered UAV to fly around the Red Planet, photographing the surface.

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