Upgrade to Mars rovers could aid discovery on more distant worlds
Monday, September 9, 2013 - 14:31
in Astronomy & Space
Smart as the Mars Curiosity mission has been about landing and finding its own way on a distant world, the rover is pretty brainless when it comes to doing the science that it was sent 567 million kilometers to carry out. That has to change if future rover missions are to make discoveries further out in the solar system, scientists say.