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title: How To Not Break A Mars Rover — HIGH T3CH
url: https://hight3ch.com/how-to-not-break-a-mars-rover/
date: 2017-04-24
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# How To Not Break A Mars Rover

The Mars Yard, at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is one of the closest simulations of Mars that we’ve got. Admittedly, there’s a bit more atmosphere and gravity, but it’s the only way to test what might happen before sending commands to a rover that’s light-minutes away.