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A Robot With Expandable Appendages Could Explore Martian Caves And Cliffs


Plenty of areas in the solar system are interesting for scientific purposes but hard to access by traditional rovers. Some of the most prominent are the caves and cliffs of Mars - where exposed strata could hold clues to whether life ever existed on the Red Planet.

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