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Microflyers on Mars

Posted by michael on from the float-like-a-butterfly dept.

Birds of Fire writes: "This article on Yahoo reports on work in Australia to develop tiny aircraft for Mars exploration. "Aircraft weighing as little as a chocolate bar could one day be darting over the surface of Mars with the agility of dragonflies and the eyes of bees."

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  1. GPS Navigation? by Perdo · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    NASA has it's hand in the Department of Defence's cookie jar again. Since Mars does not have a constelation of GPS sattellites (yet), this project is exclusivly for miniature terestrial surveilance.

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