NASA has a new Rover.
It’s named Grover.
Grover, or Goddard Remotely Operated Vehicle for Exploration
and Research, is solar powered. Not only is this machine Earth friendly, it’s
going to be used to study Greenland’s ice sheets. The goal of this study is to
discern how the ice sheets form, and also how quickly they may be melting. That’s
right, we stayed politically correct for those who deny global warming, and
said MAY. Hopefully this study will help everyone agree (When you wish upon a
star…).
The mission will run from May 3 through June 8. Weighing in
at a whopping 800 pounds, Grover may have to join Cookie Monster at fat camp.
Hopefully none of the ice sheets are too melty, Right?
The machine will use a radar to send waves to bounce through
the ice and off of anything buried to create pictures of the layers. This seems
similar to geophysical archaeological surveys.
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