NASA May Want To Put Robots On The Moon

Here is a bit more information on the order from which they plan deployment:

Before the humans come the robots. To function, robots need electrical power and warmth, and with the right equipment, the sun can provide both, with a little help. In darkness, the crater is about 100 degrees Kelvin, or -280 fahrenheit, but a series of solar reflectors could capture light from the peaks on the crater rim and then reflect it down into the crater, warming and fueling solar-powered rovers at the same time.

Should this plan all work out, several transforming robots with reflectors would work on the edge of the crater, beaming sun in, while robots inside the crater built something close to an “oasis” on the moon. Or at least, an oasis for lunar robots.

Uh which would you choose?  An oasis on earth or the moon?

thanks to popular science for the great info

thanks to Ryan Oksenhorn for the pic



One Comment;

  1. George Meleski said:

    Makes perfect sense, I second delay controlled payloaders and bulldozers along with inflated shelters in and out of craters for humans, but could house numerous sensors to detect the amount of radiation being received on the surface.

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