🇩🇪 A new playground for #SpaceRobot : "The volcanic and cave landscapes of Mars and the Moon are reproduced over 1500 square metres. A tunnel, a #crater, various hills, rocks, gullies and sand dunes replicate the #extraterrestrial environments, with two thirds devoted the #Moon 🌙 and one third to #Mars 🔴. The site thus fulfils all relevant geological specifications and includes various subsoils such as basalt, #lava rocks, fine gravel and #suevite from the #Nördlinger Ries." https://www.dlr.de/en/latest/news/2023/03/moon-and-mars-test-site-for-robotic-missions
On 26 September 2023, the German Aerospace Center (DLR) inaugurated a special research facility in Oberpfaffenhofen. The Moon-Mars Test Site, which is operated by the Robotics and Mechatronics Center (RMC), offers ideal conditions to prepare robots for planetary exploration tasks.
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✧ Ulf Merbold ✧
Ulf Merbold (born 1941) is a German physicist and astronaut. After growing up in East Germany, he studied physics at the University of Stuttgart in West Germany. In 1977, he applied to become one of the first astronauts of the European Space Agency (ESA), and started astronaut training with NASA in 1978. On N...
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🇩🇪 7 new pictures from @DLR
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