British Astronaut Tim Peake to Control Rover on Earth From ISS

English space explorer Tim Peake, as of now on the Global Space Station, will summon a robot to move around a monster sandpit in Stevenage town that recreates the surface of Mars.

The project is a piece of an European Space Office extend that expects to figure out how space explorers can control remote frameworks on different universes, BBC wrote about Friday.

Known as Meteron (Multi-Reason End-To-End Mechanical Operation Arrange), the system has as of now seen Danish ISS crew member Andreas Mogensen get a robot on Earth to place pegs in a progression of gaps.

Peake will drive a model Mars wanderer into an obscured "hole" to discover and outline number of targets.

Airbus DS is driving the advancement of the wanderer that ESA will send to Mars in 2018 or, more probable, in 2020. As a component of this anticipate, it utilizes various "breadboard" robots to experimental run equipment and programming.

Peake will control the breadboard named Bridget.

He will charge the vehicle to drive up to focuses inside the hollow that have been set apart with bright paint.

Lit up by a light on Bridget, he will focus these markings in the camera perspective and after that tell ground control.