Astronauts remotely control rover planetary rover on Earth from space

07/31/2013 - 00:00


NASA has begun studying how remotely-operated vehicles may one day help astronauts explore other worlds.

NASA tested the Surface Telerobotics exploration concept, in which an astronaut in an orbiting spacecraft remotely operates a robot on a planetary surface. In the future, astronauts orbiting other planetary bodies, such as Mars, asteroids or the moon, could use this approach to perform work on the surface using robotic avatars.

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