Exploring worlds with many small probes instead of just a few big ones
MIT Team Envisions Exploring Mars With Mini Probes
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jul 21, 2006
MIT engineers and scientist colleagues have a new vision for the future of Mars exploration: a swarm of probes, each the size of a baseball, spreading out across the planet in every direction.
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