Underground mission to Mars
Thursday, October 29, 2009 - 17:21
in Astronomy & Space
The Netherlands is home to around 120,000 kilometres of underground gas pipelines. Researcher Edwin Dertien of Dutch University of Twente is working on a robot which can inspect the gas pipelines independently. His long, thin robot will snake its way through the pipe network. `It`s like a mission to Mars, but then underground.`