Marsokhod, Some Russian work on Mars rovers |
Marsokhod, Some Russian work on Mars rovers |
Guest_DonPMitchell_* |
May 31 2006, 03:57 AM
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You may have seen these before, but here are a few Marsokhod rover designed developed and tested by TransMASH. First is a concept developed for a Mars-94 mission. Note the radioisotope thermopile generator on the back.
[attachment=5964:attachment] They also experimented with walking rovers, and with hybrid concepts that included wheels on articulated axles: [attachment=5965:attachment] [attachment=5966:attachment] [attachment=5967:attachment] In 1999, TransMASH worked with NASA on a Mars rover, a blend of Marsokhod and some American concepts clearly. Looks similar to the ExoMars rover, I think. [attachment=5968:attachment] |
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Jun 3 2006, 08:36 PM
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Here's a Marsokhod for you - from the 2002 cover of the Russian Popular Mechanics:
http://epizodsspace.testpilot.ru/bibl/oblo...ech-2002-12.jpg Now that's how you land on a planet! None of these wussy beach balls bouncing around! -------------------- "After having some business dealings with men, I am occasionally chagrined,
and feel as if I had done some wrong, and it is hard to forget the ugly circumstance. I see that such intercourse long continued would make one thoroughly prosaic, hard, and coarse. But the longest intercourse with Nature, though in her rudest moods, does not thus harden and make coarse. A hard, sensible man whom we liken to a rock is indeed much harder than a rock. From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft." - Henry David Thoreau, November 15, 1853 |
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