Comments on: NASA tests lunar robots in Arctic crater

Researchers headed north to simulate a lunar environment. Unfortunately, the weather has been a little too nice.
Photos: Lunar rovers on a test drive

[wds_oregon]

Maybe a really dumb question

Article states that the navigation is based on GPS. How can GPS work on the Moon?

[Ex-MislTech]

GPS on the moon

GPS will work on the moon if you have
clear transmission to the GPS satellites,
you just need 3 for triangulation.

http://www.gps.gov/applications/space/index.html

While your on the backside away from the
Earth I think you are out of luck.

And you have to figure for a bit more
delay due to the distance.

So I think they will most likely be working
on the side that faces the earth, it doesn't
rotate...

http://www.digipro.com/Trials/moon.html

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Satalites to aid the safty of the next generation of bugs

you know like how you can heat bubbles, could NASA like use the effect to ward off danger in the future

[bluemist9999]

Software failures

How will the rovers recover from the inevitable software failures? The software needed to make the lunar rover semi-autonomous will be pretty intricate.

Reboots help, but I think the rovers would need more self-healing software to recover gracefully from more minor failures.

[truth2thepeople]

truth 2 the people .keep earasing i will keep posting

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[truth2thepeople]

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[lbytesxk]

Well, I needed a good laugh

thanks

[lezstar]

you lunatic

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[Scott O.]

Oopsey

"In the late 1950s, the Soviet Union landed a robotic rover on the moon called Lunokhod, a remotely controlled vehicle (via joystick) that captured imagery from television cameras."

Just for the record that happened in 1970. It was tough enough to get a tin foil basketball into earth orbit for a few cycles in the late 1950's...forget about hitting the moon with a (joystick) controlled vehicle