New rover

At the beginning of October 2013, the Chilean Atacama Desert turned into Mars for a week: a group of scientists and engineers came here to conduct full-scale tests of the prototype of the automatic Mars rover they had developed. A prototype of the Bridget rover, which is due to go to the Red Planet in 2018 as part of the European Space Agency's ExoMars mission, was brought to the Southern European Observatory for testing. The purpose of the tests is to gain first-hand experience in remotely controlling the rover and collecting field data from its three onboard instruments.

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