New NASA Rover can be designed with your help
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The jet propulsion Laboratory of NASA in Pasadena, California, under the grant program conducts a public competition to develop a sensor to prevent obstacles to a possible future Rover, developed by the Agency to study Venus. The main objective will be to study the terrain hellish planets that for a long time failed to properly make the Soviet and American precursors to the Rover. Hoping to attract public attention to a given problem, NASA researchers hope to create powerful and technologically advanced device that is able to survive even in harsh conditions the second planet from the Sun.
a New expedition to Venus
It is Unlikely that Venus may appear to you, while surface temperature over 350 degrees Celsius and atmospheric pressure 90 times greater than earth, Venus can turn lead into a puddle and even easily crush a nuclear submarine. Despite the fact that our cosmic neighbor is already visited by a large number of missions, only about a dozen of them came into contact with the surface of Venus before dying under the severe pressure of the planet. The last spacecraft touched the surface of the planet, was the Soviet «VEGA-2», which successfully landed on Venus in 1985. Although the mission of the unit and is successful, the device could “live” in the hellish climate of our cosmic neighbor, only about an hour, giving scientists a reason to think about creating more technological apparatus.
“VEGA-2” — the last unit successfully landed on the surface of Venus.
Jonathan Sauder, senior mechatronics engineer at NASA, says that Earth and Venus were once truly brotherly planets with similar climatic characteristics. Create a tropical Paradise on the second planet from the Sun prevented a single event, forced a neighboring planet to go on radically different paths of development. Anyway, the researcher is convinced that the study of different geological units on the surface of Venus could help us to understand the evolution of the planet, thereby contributing to a better understanding of Earth's climate.
Driven by wind, the new Rover NASA will spend months, not minutes, exploring the landscape of Venus. As soon as the Rover starts to move in his research, he will need to be able to detect and avoid obstacles in its path. So, rocks, crevasses and steep slopes may hinder the conduct of scientific work, and in order to prevent the emergence of a number of difficulties in the operation of future devices, NASA decided to resort to outside help in the development of a new type of sensor, capable of operating at extremely high temperatures. Winner sensor will be included in the concept of the Rover and will potentially be able to become an active part of the mechanism by which humanity learns about the details of the terrain .
Typical landscape of Venus
Participants will have the opportunity to win the first place prize of $15 000. It is also known that the second place will bring the Creator of a successful project $10,000, and the third — $ 5,000. In order to personally take part in the contest and to get more information about the offer, you can visit the official .
the Concept of a Rover that can be sent to Venus in the near future.
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