NASA/JPL Tumbleweed Polar Rover
The Tumbleweed Rover, currently under development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is a large, wind-blown, inflated ball, which carries an instrument payload in its interior. Such rovers offer an effective and simple means of gathering data over large spatial extents o...
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ftnasajpl:oai:trs.jpl.nasa.gov:2014/39171 2023-05-15T13:31:51+02:00 NASA/JPL Tumbleweed Polar Rover Behar, Alberto E. Matthews, Jaret Carsey, Frank Jones, Jack 2006-05-01T20:01:39Z 597444 bytes application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/2014/39171 en_US eng Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004. IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, March 6-13, 2004 04-0014 http://hdl.handle.net/2014/39171 Tumbleweed polar rovers Preprint 2006 ftnasajpl 2021-12-23T13:20:12Z The Tumbleweed Rover, currently under development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is a large, wind-blown, inflated ball, which carries an instrument payload in its interior. Such rovers offer an effective and simple means of gathering data over large spatial extents of Earth, Mars, and other solar system bodies. Tumbleweeds could prove to be a safe and economical way of deploying instruments such as a ground penetrating radar or a magnetometer in numerous hostile environments. The latest version of the rover was recently deployed in Greenland, where it completed a more than 130 km autonomous traverse across an ice sheet. Communicating via the Iridium satellite network, the rover in question successfully and reliably relayed live GPS, temperature, and pressure data to a ground station at JPL for nearly ten days. The follow-on rover is currently being readied for a traverse from the South Pole to the coast of Antarctica some 2000 km away. The Antarctic test is set to take place in February of 2004 and will serve to verify Tumbleweed as an effective means of harvesting data in extreme and remote settings. NASA/JPL Report Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Greenland Ice Sheet South pole South pole JPL Technical Report Server Antarctic Greenland South Pole The Antarctic |
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The Tumbleweed Rover, currently under development at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, is a large, wind-blown, inflated ball, which carries an instrument payload in its interior. Such rovers offer an effective and simple means of gathering data over large spatial extents of Earth, Mars, and other solar system bodies. Tumbleweeds could prove to be a safe and economical way of deploying instruments such as a ground penetrating radar or a magnetometer in numerous hostile environments. The latest version of the rover was recently deployed in Greenland, where it completed a more than 130 km autonomous traverse across an ice sheet. Communicating via the Iridium satellite network, the rover in question successfully and reliably relayed live GPS, temperature, and pressure data to a ground station at JPL for nearly ten days. The follow-on rover is currently being readied for a traverse from the South Pole to the coast of Antarctica some 2000 km away. The Antarctic test is set to take place in February of 2004 and will serve to verify Tumbleweed as an effective means of harvesting data in extreme and remote settings. NASA/JPL |
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