Chinese Lunar Rover
The BBC have a story that engineers at the Shanghai Institute have unveiled a new prototype rover. This is nothing to do Longbridge - that is a different type of Rover - but instead refers to a rover which may end up as part of a Chinese mission to the Moon in 2012. Here is the accompanying picture.

Prototype for a lunar rover being displayed at the Shanghai Institute CREDIT: Reuters
Another interesting thing I noticed in the image above is the presence of the Open University's Prof John Zarnecki (left-most of the group of three). Prof Zarnecki was the principle investigator on the Huygens Surface Science Package (landed on Titan) and is also the principle investigator for the UV spectrometer on ExoMars, so it makes sense for him to be visiting and perhaps sharing ideas.
Posted in astro blog by Stuart on Monday 09th Apr 2007 (11:43 BST) | Permalink