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Tumbleweed: A New Paradigm for Surveying the Surface of Mars
Panel Selection:
Mars: Not Phobos and Deimos.
Institution:
Planetary Science Institute
Tumbleweeds are lightweight, highly configurable and inexpensive wind-driven vehicles that could enable long-range surveys of the surface of Mars. Their analytical capabilities can be optimized for measurements for astrobiology or in situ resources over relatively large swaths of terrain.
