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Visitors took a turn at controlling Cratos, a small-scale tracked test rover, designed and built by Glenn engineers for studying various track designs and controls to safely descend Moon craters. Rovers like Cratos will be deployed to support the NASA Exploration Technology Development Program's In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) project for excavation of the moon's soil so that scientists can extract oxygen from minerals to sustain human outposts. A miniaturized version of Glenn's sand-filled SLOPE (Simulated Lunar Operations) facility was built in the Hangar so vistors could operate and test Cratos' maneuvers in a simulated lunar-surface environment. Image Credit: NASA/Imaging Technology Center › Return to Image Feature
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Visitors took a turn at controlling Cratos, a small-scale tracked test rover, designed and built by Glenn engineers for studying various track designs and controls to safely descend Moon craters. Rovers like Cratos will be deployed to support the NASA Exploration Technology Development Program's In-Situ Resource Utilization (ISRU) project for excavation of the moon's soil so that scientists can extract oxygen from minerals to sustain human outposts. A miniaturized version of Glenn's sand-filled SLOPE (Simulated Lunar Operations) facility was built in the Hangar so vistors could operate and test Cratos' maneuvers in a simulated lunar-surface environment. Image Credit: NASA/Imaging Technology Center › Return to Image Feature
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