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Engineers Design a Robot That Can Stick To, Crawl Along, and Sail Around Rubble Pile Asteroids


me in many shapes and sizes. Most are spherical, though many have a feature that can make them difficult to land on - they are essentially just collections of rocks loosely bound together by gravity.

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