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The Canadian Space Agency unveiled its "rovers"

The CSA presented last week, in the presence of Christian Paradis, Minister of Industry and responsible for the Canadian satiale Agency, its intended to probe the subsurface of the Moon terrain "rover" vehicles, and planet Mars.

These prototypes of rovers could be functional in the field of 2020.

For Gilles Leclerc, Director of Exploration situated in Saint-Hubert Agency, it is clear that it will convince NASA well founded in this research.

So far, the Canadian Space Agency has invested $ 60 million in the development of these probes.

Probes has characteristics of arious:

Artemis: leger terrestrial prototype for lunar exploration;

JUNO: to put to the test of scientific equipment;

Kapvik: microrover designed to explore small spaces;

Microrover: with robotic arm manipulates;

REX: to simulate operations levies rocks.

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