Method of protecting a planetary rover vehicle

Details Method of protecting a planetary rover vehicle Method of protecting a planetary rover vehicle

1996-09-10

1999-04-27

Pape, Joseph D.

Land vehicles: bodies and tops

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135 8805, 901 1, B60J 1100

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058971564

ABSTRACT:
Method of protecting a planetary rover vehicle, that travels in a manner that is at least partially autonomous, against an exterior environment that has become hostile wherein the vehicle takes shelter and emerges from shelter against the exterior environment of its own accord, respectively in response to first and second events delimiting a period in which the exterior environment is hostile. The vehicle is therefore isolated from the exterior environment during this period.

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