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Euroavia students design Martian aerial vehicle

15 August 2006

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ARMaDA - the Advanced Reconnaissance Martian Deployable Aircraft - designed by students who attended the Euroavia Design Workshop 2006 at ESTEC's Erasmus Centre, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.

ARMaDA

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MAREA - the Martial Aerial Research Euroavia Airplane. Designed by students who attended the Euroavia Design Workshop 2006 at ESTEC's Erasmus Centre, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. MAREA was designed as a fully-autonomous and programmable aircraft that uses its own orbiter to communicate with the mission controllers back on Earth.

KLIMars

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KLIMars - to investigate local weather conditions on Mars - Designed by students who attended the Euroavia Design Workshop 2006 at ESTEC's Erasmus Centre, in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. KLIMars would drop 25 weather stations along a spiral flight path. The UAV would eventually land in the centre of the spiral and serve as a communication hub to the orbiting satellite.

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Inside the Erasmus User Centre, Noordwijk, the Netherlands

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ESA's Aurora mission will explore the Solar System

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ESA's Aurora Programme aims to prepare Europe to play a key role in the future human exploration of Mars and in the exploration of the Solar System

Credits: ESA - P.Carril