Sticky feet could help robots land on asteroids Daily News & Analysis A new biologically inspired robot could one day crawl over the surface of an asteroid or Mars and gather samples for study using lots of tiny, mechanical “toes. Asteroids have a weak gravitional pull, which makes it difficult for a robot probe to drive ... Sticky Feet Help Robots Land on AsteroidsLiveScience.com
Giant magnetic space whirlpools give Mercury plasma shower Newstrack India London, May 22 (ANI): NASA's Messenger spacecraft have detected Kelvin-Helmholtz waves, like on the Earth, around Mercury. KH waves occur at the boundary between two fluids, such as two different bodies of air in Earth's atmosphere.