Researchers Are Using a Four-Wheeled Rover to Explore Accessibility inside Caves (IMAGE)

Kansas State University

Researchers Are Using a Four-Wheeled Rover to Explore Accessibility inside Caves

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Kansas State University geologist Saugata Datta is part of a NASA study to explore microbial life in lava caves on Earth with a four-wheeled rover, which may lead to clues to whether there is life on Mars.

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Project BRAILLE, Lava Beds National Monument, California.

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