{"id":406842,"date":"2017-11-21T10:41:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=40d16d0e55b0a98e936b569a2726858a"},"modified":"2017-11-21T10:41:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-21T14:41:00","slug":"rover-sunset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=406842","title":{"rendered":"Rover sunset"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/11\/rover_sunset\/17262697-1-eng-GB\/Rover_sunset_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\nA rover crawls over rocky terrain on Spain\u2019s Canary Island of Lanzarote, also known as the island of a thousand volcanoes. A drone follows it closely from the sky as the Sun sets.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis crawler\u2013flyer combination was part of a test campaign that brought together geology, high-tech survey equipment and space exploration. For five days in November 2017, Pangaea-X mobilised 50 people, four space agencies and 18 organisations in five different locations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/robotik.dfki-bremen.de\/en\/research\/projects\/entern.html\" >Asguard<\/a>&nbsp;rover simulated a lunar spacewalk over rough surfaces, navigating by continuously building a 3D model of the environment. Humans can drive it manually but this robotic explorer will runs mostly in auto mode. &nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe drone hovered gathering high-resolution images and creating 3D models of the terrain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEuropean engineers hope to improve their autonomy and precision to tackle volcanoes, caves and underground highways formed by lava.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThese type of settings are potential candidates to host human habitats in future missions to the Moon and Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esa.int\/var\/esa\/storage\/images\/esa_multimedia\/images\/2017\/11\/rover_sunset\/17262697-1-eng-GB\/Rover_sunset_small.jpg\" width=\"170\" height=\"96\" align=\"left\" hspace=\"8\"><\/p>\n<p>\nA rover crawls over rocky terrain on Spain&rsquo;s Canary Island of Lanzarote, also known as the island of a thousand volcanoes. A drone follows it closely from the sky as the Sun sets.&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThis crawler&ndash;flyer combination was part of a test campaign that brought together geology, high-tech survey equipment and space exploration. For five days in November 2017, Pangaea-X mobilised 50 people, four space agencies and 18 organisations in five different locations.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe <a href=\"https:\/\/robotik.dfki-bremen.de\/en\/research\/projects\/entern.html\" target=\"_blank\">Asguard<\/a>&nbsp;rover simulated a lunar spacewalk over rough surfaces, navigating by continuously building a 3D model of the environment. Humans can drive it manually but this robotic explorer will runs mostly in auto mode. &nbsp;&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThe drone hovered gathering high-resolution images and creating 3D models of the terrain.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nEuropean engineers hope to improve their autonomy and precision to tackle volcanoes, caves and underground highways formed by lava.\n<\/p>\n<p>\nThese type of settings are potential candidates to host human habitats in future missions to the Moon and Mars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-406842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-multimedia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=406842"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406842\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406843,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406842\/revisions\/406843"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=406842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=406842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=406842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}