aerobot
Sign in to save300px|thumb|The proposed Venus In-Situ Explorer lander would release a meteorology balloon. An aerobot is an aerial robot, usually used in the context of an uncrewed space probe or unmanned aerial vehicle.
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14 sectionsContents
- Basics of balloons
- The Venus Vega balloons
- The Mars aerobot effort
- JPL aerobot experiments
- Mars
- Venus
- Titan
- Jupiter
- Planetary aircraft
- Planetary [[rotorcraft]]
- See also
- Notes
- References
- External links
300px|thumb|The proposed Venus In-Situ Explorer lander would release a meteorology balloon. An aerobot is an aerial robot, usually used in the context of an uncrewed space probe or unmanned aerial vehicle.
While work has been done since the 1960s on robot "rovers" to explore the Moon and other worlds in the Solar System, such machines have limitations. They tend to be expensive and have limited range, and due to the communications time lags over interplanetary distances, they have to be smart enough to navigate without disabling themselves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “aerobot” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.