MIT envisions 1000s of mini-probes rolling, bouncing along Mars

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MIT envisions 1000s of mini-probes rolling, bouncing along Mars

Submitted by Zinger on July 22, 2006 - 20:38.Mars | News | robotics | space | space exploration

URL: http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/2006/microbots.html

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MIT engineers and scientist colleagues have a new vision for the future of Mars exploration: a swarm of probes, each the size of a baseball, spreading out across the planet in every direction.

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