NASA's newest rover to explore no other planet than our own!
Before understanding other planets, after all they first need to understand our own Earth!!!!
Named GROVER (abbreviation for Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration and Research), will explore Greenland's ice sheets to better understand how they form and how quickly they may be melting. The device is solar' powered and semi-autonomous, and will embark on its first mission beginning Friday, May 3, and continuing until June 8. It was developed from 2010-2011 by teams of students in summer engineering boot camps at Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, according to a release from NASA.
The 6-foot tall, 800 pound rover is equipped with ground-penetrating radar that will send "radio wave pulses into the ice sheet, and the waves bounce off buried features, informing researchers about the characteristics of the snow and ice layers," according to the NASA statement.
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