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Airicist
27th May 2014, 18:29
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Airicist
27th May 2014, 18:31
https://youtu.be/4ImQih8vlkc
NASA Developing Mining Robot for Moon, Mars
Published on May 19, 2013
NASA is developing the RASSOR mining robot to collect soil, or regolith, on the moon or Mars so it can be processed into rocket fuel, breathable air and other commodities. By using materials available at other locations in the solar system, astronauts don't have to carry it all from Earth.
Airicist
27th May 2014, 18:32
https://youtu.be/d3zRvl2LYJ4
NASA's Space-Digging RASSOR Robot
Published on May 27, 2014
One day RASSOR will dig up resources on asteroids, the moon, or on Mars.
Learn more:
"Robots Will Pave the Way to Mars (https://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/space-flight/robots-will-pave-the-way-to-mars)"
Technologies that exploit space resources will finally open up the solar system to human exploration
by Rachel Courtland
May 27, 2014