Future planetary landers may fly like cockroaches

Forschung // 23. Oktober 2007

Future planetary landers may fly like cockroaches

That’s one small flight for a cockroach, one giant leap for bugkind.“

While that probably won’t be the message beamed back to Earth from a future planetary lander after it touches down successfully on Mars, cockroaches may well have played a part in the landing &#8211, especially if biologist Tobias Seidl of the European Space Agency gets his way.

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