Monday, November 13, 2006
Life on Mars, recreated in Tenerife
Tenerife has done an admirable job in the past of pretending to be other planets in fiction (Planet of the Apes, Star Wars) and, well, they say that truth is stranger.
In this fascinating article in The Guardian, about urbane spaceman, Lester Waugh, engineering manager in charge of designing the ExoMars Rover - scheduled for launch early in the next decade and known as Bridget - says that Waugh also supervises the prototype's field trials. As part of that, he is the person who must consider where they can go to mimic Martian conditions. Yeah, Tenerife.
The urbane spaceman
