A New Paradigm for Planetary Exploration – the Mars Tumbleweed Rover
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Introduction: The NASA Langley Research Center (LaRC) Mars Tumbleweed rover is a concept for a lightweight, spherical, deployable structure, with a configuration that maximizes drag to capture the Martian wind for mobility and extended mission duration. The wind-blown mobility of a Tumbleweed rover makes it an ideal platform for conducting distributed geophysical and meteorological surveys of broad areas on the Martian surface, filling a niche between the wideranging remote sensing capabilities of orbiting platforms and the focused, in-situ measurements of conventional landers and rovers (Figure 1).
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