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ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge: due squadre italiane tra i finalisti europei della sfida finale sulla 'Luna Spagnola'

16 Ottobre 2008

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A wheeled rover chassis demonstrates its difficulty in overcoming a sandy slope of just 20 degrees inclination.
Robotics vehicles (rovers) using wheeled locomotion principles cannot negotiate slopes found in lunar craters, unless some special provisions are used. A rover chassis of the automation and robotics laboratories at ESTEC is here shown as it tries to climb up a sand dune of about 20 degrees inclination. It can clearly be seen that the progress of the rover is extremely slow as the rovers slips on the sand. The ESA Lunar Robotics Challenge has been launched in order to investigate alternative locomotion principles or special provisions for wheeled rovers, to enable a rover to descend into a lunar crater and safely return back to surface.

Credits: ESA

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Skulle man hitta vatten på månen är det ett viktigt resultat inför de baser som planeras där.

Credits: ESA ©2007 MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/RSSD/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA

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SMART-1 view of Shackleton crater at lunar South Pole

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This image, taken by the advanced Moon Imaging Experiment (AMIE) on board ESA's SMART-1 spacecraft, shows crater Shackleton on the Moon.

AMIE obtained this image on 13 January 2006 - close to the time of lunar southern Summer - from a distance of 646 kilometres over the surface and with a ground resolution of 60 metres per pixel.

Shackleton crater lies at the lunar South Pole, at 89.54° South latitude and 0° East longitude, and has a diameter of 19 kilometres.

Credits: ESA/Space-X (Space Exploration Institute)

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