Genzel and Gretel on Mars. The rockers are armed with an old tale of studying the red planet

In focus. Technology has appeared its Telegram channel. Subscribe to not miss the latest and exciting news from the world of science! Even on Earth, the study of cave systems is a very complicated and risky measure. And if such a study is conducted on another planet, it further complicates the task. Therefore, American scientists have decided to create new rockers that will be able to make accurate mapping of cave depths using them, as they were called by scientists, a kind of "bread crumbs".

Many are familiar with the fairy tale about the boy Henzel and Gratel's girl, who, not to get lost in the forest, celebrated their path with the true crumbs of bread. Inspired by this fabulous history, the researchers decided to use the same "technology" to study cave systems on Mars. According to Wolfgang Finca from Arizona University, his team is now working on creating a group of rockers to perform cave mapping tasks on the Red Planet.

First, there will be a major rover, within which several small marmooks will be. This "head of the family" will have to drive to the entrance to the cave, throw them on the surface of their "children" and wait for them at the entrance. Little rockers will go to the cave system in different directions and will study all the passages of the cave. All these data will be transmitted by these "babies" with the help of radio signals by the main rover.

But because the radio signal may not pass through the local solid rock, the so -called "bread crumbs" will be useful. This name was given to small wireless devices that "cave" rockers will be dropped on the road at different distance gaps. Thus, the signal will be transmitted from one device to another, and then it will be obtained by a rover at the entrance to the cave.

Where to leave these "bread crumbs" little rockers will decide for themselves, everything will depend on how strong the signal remains. According to scientists, these rockers will be able to transmit data on their location, photographs of the terrain, as well as data on deeper scanning of local breeds. When the main rover receives all the information, its onboard computer will process it and as a result will create a detailed card of the cave system on Mars.

According to Fink, this information will be useful not only for further scientific research of the red planet, but also in order to evaluate which caves can be equipped under the homes for astronauts. Scientists believe that such underground structures will be easier and cheaper to use for the life of colonists than to build new buildings on the planet's surface. As for the little rockers who will study the caves on Mars, their fate is unfortunately sad.

They will not go back after transmitting all the information, but move forward until they are over either the charge or the "bread crumbs". Or they will be stopped by an irresistible obstacle. Scientists have already created existing prototypes of new marries together with the new communication technology and are currently testing. As for underground structures, as focus has already wrote, Zhurong's marmore was able to identify some of them on Mars.