Worth, Kalyn (2012) A comprehensive book on planetary rovers. The English Press, Delhi, India. ISBN 9788132345824
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A rover (or sometimes planetary rover) is a space exploration vehicle designed to move across the surface of a planet or other astronomical body. Some rovers have been designed to transport members of a human spaceflight crew, others have been partially or fully autonomous robots. Rovers usually arrive at the planetary surface on a lander-style spacecraft. Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers: they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months if they are solar powered and they can advance the knowledge of how to perform very remote robotic vehicle control which is necessarily semi autonomous due to the finite speed of light Their advantages over orbiting spacecraft are that they can make observations to a microscopic level and can conduct physical experimentation. Disadvantages of rovers compared to orbiters are the higher chance of failure, due to landing and other risks, and that they are limited to a small area around a landing site which itself is only approximately anticipated.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy |
| Divisions: | Electronic Books |
| Depositing User: | Esam @ Hisham Muhammad |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Nov 2022 09:05 |
| Last Modified: | 22 Nov 2022 09:05 |
| URI: | http://odlsystem2.utm.my/id/eprint/3652 |
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