when the Curiosity Rover landed on surface of Mars, NASA scientists experienced seven minutes of agony and terror: The Rover fell from the sky at 13.000 miles per hour, with its only "brake" a parachute and a few rocket engines to not disintegrate with the impact.
A NASA team has managed to create something that is safer: a rover of hollow bars and a flexible cord that can bend and bounce. The Super Ball Bot of NASA it can absorb the hit of an abnormal landing, become one with the soil and open again without the slightest.
NASA scientists are still in a very early stage of testing, but it turns out that the idea works and looks for the best way to control it as it rolls. They look for ways to post more payloads, such as information retrieval tools, analytics,
The team behind the rover believes it could land on the largest moon of Saturn, the Titan, without any protection. Maybe the next alien landing will be a little less scary.
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