NASA has tested a robot that should fly to Mars

NASA's National Aeronautics and Space Administration has tested a new work called InSight, which it plans to send to Mars.

This is reported by Naked Science.

The robot is similar to a small crane and can lift and carry various objects - this is what InSight will do on Mars.

This is the first device to study the deep layers of the Martian soil, so instead of the wheels it has a solid frame that allows it to resist virtually any surface.

For testing, scientists have equipped a special laboratory that simulates Martian conditions, including soil and light. The lights, arranged throughout the laboratory, calibrate the robot's camera so that they later adapted to the sunlight that enters the atmosphere of Mars.

The working environment is constantly changing, simulating heights and depressions with a gradient of 15 degrees. In such conditions, the device tests three instruments: a hypersensitive seismometer, a screen that protects it, and a heat flux sensor.



Recall that February 6 from the launch site of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the first time launched a rocket carrier Falcon Heavy .

Falcon Heavy - the world's most powerful carrier rocket. It will be able to output 63.8 tons of payload to a low Earth orbit. Also, Falcon Heavy is the first rocket that can deliver people to the Moon and Mars.

The load on launch of Falcon Heavy has become the personal electric car of Ilona Mask Tesla Roadster, where David Bowie plays on repeat. Inside is a mannequin dressed in a spacesuit.

Tesla Ilona Maska was brought to the base of space ships and objects of the Solar System of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

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