Tumbleweed Ball Could Be Key to Exploring Mars

[Liffrea]

No more retro Mars Rovers getting stuck in sand! Presto! NASA's new army of tumbleweed beach ball robots will roll across the Red Planet surveying vast tracts of exotic Martian landcsape surface. Tt's a big, lightweight, two-story tall beach ball equipped with scientific instruments and propelled by nothing more than the thin Martian breeze.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/03/-tumbleweed-rover-ball-could-be-key-to-exploring-more-of-mars.html

[poiuytrewq0987]

No more retro Mars Rovers getting stuck in sand! Presto! NASA's new army of tumbleweed beach ball robots will roll across the Red Planet surveying vast tracts of exotic Martian landcsape surface. Tt's a big, lightweight, two-story tall beach ball equipped with scientific instruments and propelled by nothing more than the thin Martian breeze.

http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2010/03/-tumbleweed-rover-ball-could-be-key-to-exploring-more-of-mars.html

The equivalent of a 2-story house? Now that's big.