Recent news from the European Space Agency and its Russian counterpart Roscomos that their ExoMars Martian rover is facing a two-year delay, which may see it beaten to the Red Planet by a similar Chinese project was unfortunately timed. It came just a few days after a prototype was navigated through a simulated Martian landscape at the Stevenage premises of manufacturer Airbus Defence and Space by UK astronaut Tim Peake, steering from the International Space Station. The experiment, in which Peake had to use the rover to find several objects inside a cave, demonstrated the sort of situation where vehicles … Continue reading New book blog: How #rovers will lead the way to #Mars and beyond