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Solar-Powered Moon Rover To Explore Apollo Landing

Posted by samzenpus on from the check-out-the-whole-stage dept.

Mike writes "Carnegie Mellon roboticist Dr. William Whittaker has teamed up with Astrobiotic Technology to develop a solar powered moon rover that will explore the Apollo landing site in 2011. The photovoltaic clad robot features two electric motors in the hub of each wheel, and a half cone of solar generators up top that will power the wheels, run computers, and beam stereo HD video back to earth. The project has been entered in the $25 million Google Lunar X Prize competition."

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  1. Re:oblig capricorn one quotes by superdana · · Score: 0, Troll

    The day Slashdot finally figures out character encodings is... well, at this rate, probably never.