Tumbleweed Rover for Marathon Martian Journeys

An anonymous reader writes "A prototype Mars rover, the Tumbleweed, has completed its 40 mile trek across the Antarctic, driven only by winds even in rough terrain over eight days. While the current rovers are designed for flat, equatorial regions, the tumbleweed design is geared to cover longer distances across what many consider the more interesting and dangerous polar regions on Mars."

Comments

what would you like on your tombstone?

[surreal-maitland]

me and my martian army will meet y'all outside the saloon on venus. this planet ain't big enough for the both of us.

*whistle* wah wah wah

Re:FIRST POST1

[October_30th]

Too bad there's no-one to replace him.

Tories are rudderless and the beauty of a de facto two-party system guarantees that no outsiders can challenge the poodle.

Futurama alread did it.

[stratjakt]

"We've all seen too many body bags and ball sacks." - Henry Kissenger.

Watch out astronaut!!!

[macshune]

Sallah: Please, what does it always mean, this... this "Junior"?
Professor Henry Jones: That's his name. [points to himself] Henry Jones... [points to Indy] ...Junior.
Indiana Jones: I like "Indiana."
Professor Henry Jones: We named the *dog* Indiana.
Marcus Brody: May we go home now, please?
Sallah: The dog?! You are named after the dog?!
Indiana Jones: I've got a lot of fond memories of that dog.

Martian wind + Giant-ass soccer ball filled with scientific instruments + astronaut posing for picture = First action scene from Raiders of the Lost Ark



Yeah, the quote is from Last Crusade, but it seems relavant...

Re:Difficult task

[BerntB]

the sig said:

Newton, Galileo, Kepler, Dirac, Faraday, Planck, Kelvin, Maxwell and Einstein beleived in God. So do I.

And so did Hitler... :-)

Much fewer scientists are religious -- if you compare to the general population.

It's an old observation that if you cherrypick examples from a large data set, you can get good statistics for any thesis. Of course, that is the reason it is considered less than intellectually honest...

Besides, "religious" is hardly a good description of Einstein. Also, Newton was a nut I wouldn't want to mention regarding anything but math... Ah never mind.

(The references are just Googles for things I read years ago and wanted pointers to. Original source is Nature.)