Crewed Mars rover

This space art, titled The Next Stop was selected by the ESA when discussing its Aurora programme.[1]

Crewed Mars rovers (also called manned Mars rovers[2]) are Mars rovers for transporting people on the planet Mars, and have been conceptualized as part of human missions to that planet.[3][4]

Two types of crewed Mars rovers are unpressurized for a crew in Mars space suits, and pressurized for the crew to work without a space suit. Pressurized rovers have been envisioned for short trips from a Mars base, or may be equipped as a mobile base or laboratory.[4]

Crewed Mars rovers are a component of many designs for a human mission to the planet Mars. For example, the Austere Human Missions to Mars proposal included two rovers on its uncrewed power and logistics cargo lander. Each rover could hold a crew of two in a pressurized environment, with power coming from a Stirling radioisotope generator.[3]

  1. ^ "Liftoff for Aurora: Europe's first steps to Mars, the Moon and beyond". ESA. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
  2. ^ Fink, Greg (7 June 2017). "Mars Car: Manned Mars Rover Concept Debuts at Kennedy Space Center". Car and Driver. Archived from the original on 18 July 2018. Retrieved 22 September 2018.
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