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ETH And UZH Among Winners Of Lunar Robotics Challenge

The lunar rover of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETH) and the University of Zurich (UZH) is one of the winners in a competition by the European Space Agency and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre. The rovers will enable further exploration of the Moon. Teams in ESA competition are developing rovers for lunar exploration. Image credit: ESA-M. Sabbatini The lunar rover created by ETH and UZH is one of five winners in the first phase of an international competition. The challenge was launched by the European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Space Resources Innovation Centre (ESRIC) with headquarters in Sassenheim, Luxembourg.…
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With Perseverance, MIT Teams Prepare For Mars Rover Landing

On Thursday, NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, is scheduled to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet following a nail-biting entry and descent sequence vividly known as the “seven minutes of terror.” If all goes according to plan, the car-sized explorer will blast safely down into Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide impact basin that once may have hosted a river delta flooded with water, and possibly life.   Over the next year and a half of its primary mission, Perseverance will explore the crater and collect rock samples that will one day be returned to Earth, where scientists hope to…
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