Robotic Ants In Space

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Robotic Ants In Space 47

Posted by michael on Monday January 01, 2001 @05:59AM from the my-god,-it's-full-of-ants dept.

Regular contributor Ant sends word of a far-fetched plan to send robotic ants out into the asteroid belt with this story at space.com. "NASA may mimic the ant in its future efforts to explore the belt of asteroids that lies between Mars and Jupiter, a resource-rich region that astronauts might tap as humans move out in the solar system."

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