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The Mars Hopper: Long Range Mobile Platform Powered by Martian In-Situ Resources
Panel Selection:
Mars: Not Phobos and Deimos.
Satellites: Galilean satellites, Titan, and the other satellites of the giant planets.
Institution:
Idaho National Laboratory
The CSNR is designing an instrumented platform that can acquire detailed data at hundreds of locations during its 10 year lifetime - a Mars Hopper. By accumulating thermal power from a radioisotope source, the platform will be able to “hop” from one location to the next every 2-3 days with a separa
