• Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar
  • Skip to footer

Digital Grog | Technology Blog Australia

Technology & Software Blog and Guide - World of JJ

Bestsellers from amazon australia 2020
  • Home
  • Webhosting
    • List of WordPress Web hosts
    • Comparisons
    • Blog Hosting
  • Make Money Online
    • Clickbank
    • Affiliate Programs Australia
      • Amazon
  • Domains Australia
    • Australian Domain Names
    • Register a domain name
  • Technology 2018
    • Technology News
      • Gadgets
      • Software
  • Guest Posts
  • About
  • Contact us
You are here: Home / 2012 / Curiosity with the Top 5 MARS /Moon riders or Space Invaders

Curiosity with the Top 5 MARS /Moon riders or Space Invaders

September 10, 2012 by JJ Leave a Comment

These four wheel drives are not your average petrol guzzling kind , but are kind off elite and take on special terrain surfaces like mars and the moon. Since curiosity  landed on mars  there is abuzz around  these crazy techo wizz vehicles that can do more than pull out rabbit from hats.

Check out some cool SPACE AGE  Four wheel drives Winking smile

Curiosity’s  Navcams will begin taking one-megapixel stereo pictures 360 degrees around the rover. These cameras have medium-angle, 45-degree fields of views and could resolve the equivalent of a golf ball lying 82 feet (25 meters) away. T

The cameras on these bad boy can take color pictures and even 3D video

You see that Box attached on top behind the cam , it  can use its laser to burn holes real quick  upto a depth of  25 feet to identify chemical properties

cameras on NASA's Curiosity rover

Watch NASA TV

Curiosity Mars Science Laboratory Launch

Spacecraft: Mars Science Laboratory, Curiosity Rover
Launch Vehicle: United Launch Alliance Atlas V
Launch Site: Cape Canaveral Air Force Station
Launch Pad: Space Launch Complex 41
Launch Date: Nov. 26, 2011
Launch Time: 10:02 a.m. EST

SOME OTHER COOL FACTS ON CURIOSITY

BUDGET:2.5 Billion

DISTANCE TRAVELLED: 566 Million KMS and counting

GOAL:TO SEARCH FOR ESSENTIAL SIGNS OF LIFE CARBON NITROGEN, PHOSPOROUS SULPHUR AND OXYGEN.

Chinese mars Rover prototype

Chinese researchers from Shanghai institute unveiled a prototype lunar rover which is in the ruinning to be selected by China’s space authority for the country’s first moon mission in 2012

Ref: http://cache.wists.com/thumbnails/fef1c-orig

The robot is designed to move much faster than NASA’s robots as it is capable of traveling 100 meters in one hour. China and the U.S. are in a race to put a man on the Moon after 2015

Lama Russian Marsokhod Rover

lama russian marsokhod rover

Lama is a Marsokhod rover built by VNII Transmach in St Petersburg, Russia. It was bought by Alcatel Space Industries in 1995, and has been lent to LAAS in 1996.

Its got a few modifications since with AC/DC converters box that feed the motors and instruments or charges the batteries located inside the wheels. A fiber-optic gyrometer replaces the compass, and a differential carrier-phase GPS.

NASA’s Lunar Chariot

NASA’s Lunar Chariot, which costs a reported $2 million to build but a  top speed of only 15 mph.

NASA Lunar Chariot

View images of the lunar truck.
View video of the lunar truck. Windows Media | Real Player

Other than these spiffy rovers and moon riders  there have been few others that have been developed  and also a few  still being developed or modified which  includes  the”JPL Blue Rover prototype 1987 Moon Mars”

Blue Rover (circa 1987) - The JPL Blue Rover, originally a lunar rover prototype, was used for Mars rover technology development in the late 1980's.

Ref:http://www-robotics.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/mige=311

and the “SOVIET Lunokhod-1 Moon Rover” as below

Lunokhod 1 (high resolution).jpg

Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1

Share this:
Share this page via Email Share this page via Stumble Upon Share this page via Digg this Share this page via Facebook Share this page via Twitter

Filed Under: 2012, Featured, Top 10 Tagged With: All terrain Vehicles, AWD, Four wheel Drive, Moon

strating your own website on the cheap in australia

Reader Interactions

Leave a Reply Cancel reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

Primary Sidebar

Bluehost Fresh deal for Digital Grog Readers

bluehost 2020 hosting offer 42% off at AUD USD 2.95 a month price from Australia bluehost.com

About The author

Digital GrogJJ is a blogger who likes to blog about Technology, SEO, E -marketing and write articles on Website building, Google + and gadgets. JJ is the author and founder of Digital Grog, a widely-read tech and how-to blog. Email: jeromejf@hotmail.com

Old Blog Posts

  • ResOces
    • Create A online Store
  • Software
    • Accounting Software
    • Video Editing Program
    • Lost Windows Password
    • Streaming Recorder
  • China Fake Cars
  • Review
    • Mercedes Benz E200
    • Gadgets
      • JVC Video Camera
    • Cars
    • Dan Murphy
  • Tech Events & Conferences – Australia

Counter

Footer

Get Email-Updates from DG

email list subscribe
  • Privacy policy
  • Website Review
  • Subscribe

Disclosure:

Digitalgrog.com.au is a affiliate partner to most of the hosting services that is listed here, which means that in addition to using their service for our projects, we also receive a commission for referring new customers.

To be fair though, we would use these services even if we weren’t an affiliate. We recommend certain Hosting companies because they are the best for that particular need. Because we’re a partner, these providers offers a special price for Digitalgrog readers.Check latest hosting prices today.

Social Media +

Connect on twitter

Connect with our Wordpress you tube channel blog Channel

Connect and

  • Gadget australia blog

© Copyright 2018 Digital Grog · All Rights Reserved · Powered by WordPress · Login