Automation technologies to sustain humans on the Red Planet

Posted on 9 Mar 2022 by The Manufacturer

NASA’s Perseverance rover has just announced its first sampling collection in one year after landing. Advancements like this make the idea of sending humans to Mars by 2030 seem highly achievable, but it’s with the help from major breakthroughs in technology that these are possible.

Here, Neil Ballinger, Head of EMEA at EU Automation, discusses how automation technologies help revolutionise the idea of humans on Mars. Mars has always been one of the top priorities for astronauts to research and to envision a potential human transition to this planet. Due to its similarities with Earth in size, inclination, structure, composition…

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