NASA reveals driver 'monster car on Mars'

The US Aerospace Agency (NASA) has revealed information about a selected group of drivers and waited to take control of NASA's self-driving Curiosity - NASA's "monster monster car" .

The self-portrait image taken by the Curiosity's Navigation lenses showed the 'Mars monster vehicle' that the group of drivers selected by NASA had to control in the coming week. (Photo: Reuters)

According to the Daily Mail, a group of engineers and computer programmers have been trained by NASA for years to be able to drive Curiosity when the self-propelled explorer travels through the rugged terrain of the Gale hole on the onion. red crystal.

Only 20 candidates from all over the world are eligible to hold the most advanced Mars probe - a massive vehicle made of titanium, aluminum and silicon with 6 wheels the size of a drum.

'Basically, we brought the monster carriage to Mars,' said Brian Cooper, NASA engineer - speaking in an interview published in the Los Angeles Times.

The Curiosity drivers were trained for 2 years before being considered
Approved standards take control of the mission worth $ 2.5 billion. (Photo: EPA)

If all goes well, the Curiosity will start moving here on the Martian surface next week after completing a comprehensive system check to ensure that it is not harmed during the journey. from Earth, then land on the red planet.

Curiosity is twice the size of Spirit and Opportunity -
NASA 'predecessor' self-propelled explorers. (Photo: EPA)

However, driving the Curiosity to Mars is not simply a matter of grasping the control panel and pressing the start button.

In fact, those who choose to pilot NASA self-propelled ships will need to write thousands of lines of computer code to instruct this machine how to find the best route on unfamiliar terrain.

Depending on the relative orbits of Earth and Mars, these instructions must then be transmitted anywhere from 54.6 to 401 million km in space before they can be done.

In addition, drivers operating the Curiosity will have to abandon their normal biological rhythm to live on Mars, with 24-hour days, 39 minutes and 35 seconds.

For all of these reasons, the twice-sized Spirit and Opportunity machine - NASA's "predecessor" self-propelled explorers, which run on the energy of a nuclear reactor and are equipped with being vaporized by a laser device - is a brainwashing job.

The drivers of the Curiosity ship will also face a mountain of pressure on having to complete the task without making a mistake. The whole world is watching closely and only a small mistake can turn the ambitious expedition mission into a rubble worth $ 2.5 billion.