Hovercraft+automatically deployed and controlled snowmobile track for all of the times when extra grip and torque is needed to deal with whatever terrain(including mountain hopping if the craft is sensibly designed to spread itself low with extendable horizontal booms ending in a ground effect/lifting thrust pads.A central turbine can run on self produced MethOx or fuel refills can be mass driven from the ISS if needed to supliment the Mars production during a mammoth dust storm blocking the solar stills. There's no need to send weaker designs but I would also deploy the new generation of nuclear reactors to the moon and Mars now to get automated resource processing in the best places now or lose them forever to the competition.
Its an interesting comment. Now the idea that you propose of combining a hovercraft and a snowmobile track is quite smart. You solve the problem of quicksand that rovers suffer from and moving over large rocks through levitation. Now one challenge that we might face is the limitation of ground effect on Mars. The Martian atmosphere is only 1% as dense as Earth's, meaning there is less air to compress to create the cushion needed for lift. I'm happy to discuss more life mechanisms and get to know you more through email: biobyte0@gmail.com.
Which environment would you guys test the lizard-inspired robot?
Hovercraft+automatically deployed and controlled snowmobile track for all of the times when extra grip and torque is needed to deal with whatever terrain(including mountain hopping if the craft is sensibly designed to spread itself low with extendable horizontal booms ending in a ground effect/lifting thrust pads.A central turbine can run on self produced MethOx or fuel refills can be mass driven from the ISS if needed to supliment the Mars production during a mammoth dust storm blocking the solar stills. There's no need to send weaker designs but I would also deploy the new generation of nuclear reactors to the moon and Mars now to get automated resource processing in the best places now or lose them forever to the competition.
Its an interesting comment. Now the idea that you propose of combining a hovercraft and a snowmobile track is quite smart. You solve the problem of quicksand that rovers suffer from and moving over large rocks through levitation. Now one challenge that we might face is the limitation of ground effect on Mars. The Martian atmosphere is only 1% as dense as Earth's, meaning there is less air to compress to create the cushion needed for lift. I'm happy to discuss more life mechanisms and get to know you more through email: biobyte0@gmail.com.