为月球车测试新轮子
In this image from June 2023, an engineer watches a development model rover during a test for NASA’s Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration (CADRE) technology demonstration in the Mars Yard at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California. The team tested a new wheel design, surface navigation software, and mobility capabilities, among other aspects of the project.
NASA is sending a trio of these miniature rovers to the Moon to see how well they can cooperate with one another without direct input from mission controllers back on Earth. About the size of a carry-on suitcase, each of the four-wheeled rovers will drive to find a sunbathing spot, where they’ll open their solar panels and charge up. Then they’ll spend the lunar daytime conducting experiments designed to test their capabilities.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
在这张2023年6月的图片中，一名工程师在南加州NASA喷气推进实验室的火星车库中观看了一辆开发模型漫游车，测试NASA的协作自主分布式机器人探索(CADRE)技术演示。该团队测试了该项目的新轮子设计、地面导航软件和移动能力，以及项目的其他方面。
NASA正在向月球发射三辆这样的微型漫游车，以观察它们在没有地球上任务控制者直接输入的情况下，彼此之间的合作情况。这些四轮漫游车的大小和随身行李箱差不多，每辆漫游车都会找到一个太阳照射的地方，在那里打开太阳能电池板充电。然后它们将在月球上的白天进行实验，以测试它们的能力。
影像来源：NASA/JPL-Caltech