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Students have developed a rover to explore Mars. But first, it has to roam on campus.

Meet Watney Mark 2.1. This rover is meant to traverse red dirt. But first its wheels must taste Northeastern concrete.

by Eva Botkin-Kowacki June 4, 2021

Northeastern’s Mars Rover team designed, built, and tested a prototype mars rover for the University Rover Challenge sponsored by the Mars Society. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

They know what astronauts are going to need once we put them on Mars

A drill to extract frozen water from beneath the planet’s surface. A rover to accompany astronauts as they work. The Northeastern students who designed and built this technology will be showing off their work at Boston’s Museum of Science this weekend.

by Laura Castañón July 15, 2019

Northeastern students from the College of Science, the College of Engineering, and the Khoury College of Computer Sciences have been designing and building a rover that could work with astronauts on Mars. Photo by Adam Glanzman/Northeastern University

NASA wants to put astronauts on Mars. These students are designing the rovers.

Astronauts are going to need rovers to help with technical and scientific tasks when they get to the Red Planet. Northeastern students have designed a prototype, and will be competing in the University Rover Challenge at the Mars Desert Research Center in Utah at the end of May.

by Laura Castañón May 23, 2019

Students have developed a rover to explore Mars. But first, it has to roam on campus.

They know what astronauts are going to need once we put them on Mars

NASA wants to put astronauts on Mars. These students are designing the rovers.

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