Engineers envision exploring Mars with mini probes

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An artists rendering shows the baseball-sized probes being designed by MIT researchers for Mars exploration. Illustration Gus Frederick
An artist's rendering shows the baseball-sized probes being designed by MIT researchers for Mars exploration. Illustration / Gus Frederick

MIT engineers and scientist colleagues have a new vision for the future of Mars exploration: a swarm of probes, each the size of a baseball, spreading out across the planet in every direction.


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