The Mars Rover Concept By NASA

To The Moon And Back: This Is What NASA Has In Mind

Not everyday NASA stations open doors to the general public. In fact, at best, their business mainly catches the public eye when they have something they feel is worthy public consumption.

But the outer space scientific research outfit is as “human” as all of us and sometimes gets to experiment with ideas. One of the ideas that can resonate very well with all of us is the Mars Rover Concept, a vehicle designated for off-road purposes, not on our roads but somewhere in Mars.

Crazy, right? True enough,these are the kind of things that you want to see in order to believe.

This machine was built by Parker Brothers, famous for their rather outstreched concepts. The Mars Concept Rover has a specific mission to accomplish in the outerspace; it is supposed to search for signs of past microbial life and collect core samples for potentially future return to earth once it lands on mars.

It is by mechanism, a vehicle like just any other. It operates on an electric motor powered by solar panels and a 700-volt battery.

Its functions are separated into two; the front part has been designed for scouting and it’s equipped with a radio and navigation provided by the global positioning system. The back section serves as a laboratory which can disconnect for autonomous research.

The rover weighs about 5,500 lbs. (2,500 kilograms) and has six wheels designed with open structures rather than air-filled tires, similar to those on the Mars Curiosity rover currently exploring Mars. The interior looks more like an aircraft than a road vehicle, and it has seats for a driver and a co-pilot, as well as one one more seat behind those two.

The interior also includes a glove box, which would hold Martian soil and rock samples. We can probably not get enough of this special mission concept vehicle but we hope that some day it successfully makes the trip to the Red Planet and back. Then and only then will its full history be written in a proper manner.