Lava tube with rovers (IMAGE)

University of Arizona

Lava tube with rovers

Caption

In this artist's impression of the breadcrumb scenario, autonomous rovers can be seen exploring a lava tube after being deployed by a mother rover that remains at the entrance to maintain contact with an orbiter or a blimp.

Credit

John Fowler/Creative Commons (photo), Mark Tarbell and Wolfgang Fink/University of Arizona

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License

CC BY

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