{"id":131929,"date":"2021-12-07T13:44:14","date_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/model-mars-rover-does-a-zombie-walk-to-escape-a-sand-trap"},"modified":"2021-12-07T13:44:14","modified_gmt":"2021-12-07T21:44:14","slug":"model-mars-rover-does-a-zombie-walk-to-escape-a-sand-trap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/model-mars-rover-does-a-zombie-walk-to-escape-a-sand-trap","title":{"rendered":"Model Mars Rover Does A Zombie Walk To Escape A Sand Trap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/model-mars-rover-does-a-zombie-walk-to-escape-a-sand-trap.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This rover has moves that could take over a dance floor. A new video shows a simulator known as the Ground Test Model doing a sort of zombie walk over Martian-like terrain, to test out techniques for a future Mars missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe rover initially has its front two wheels almost completely buried in sand, but easily escapes using its unique wheel-walking mode,\u201d the European Space Agency said in a statement of the testing at Thales Alenia Space facilities in Turin, Italy, noting that the 6-foot drive took about 20 minutes to accomplish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe back wheels drag once the front four wheels have gained good traction on firmer terrain. The reason is that the wheel-walking sequence tested here has rather been optimized for climbing steep slopes with loose soils,\u201d ESA added of the sequence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This rover has moves that could take over a dance floor. A new video shows a simulator known as the Ground Test Model doing a sort of zombie walk over Martian-like terrain, to test out techniques for a future Mars missions. \u201cThe rover initially has its front two wheels almost completely buried in sand, but [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}