Follow the Mars rover field trial mission.
Welcome to MURFI!
The Mars Utah Rover Field Investigation is a UK Space Agency-led Mars Rover field trial mission that will take place at a site in Utah, USA, and at a Rover Operations Centre at Harwell, UK.
Here you can follow the mission as it happens, both out in the field and back in the operations centre.
We hope you enjoy the journey!
The MURFI team.
The UK Space Agency MURFI team haven’t been on their own testing Mars Rovers in Utah: we’ve shared the site with Rovers from Germany and Canada. In fact, it was the Canadian Space Agency CSA) who invited us along on this little jaunt in the first place. Now that the MURFI team have successfully wrapped … More MURFI goes to Canada
As we wrap up things in the MOC in Harwell, you may have noticed the variety of names that have appeared in our blog posts for various rocks and features that we’ve taken pictures of. In real space missions, naming things is a bit of a necessity. When talking amongst the team what the rover … More What’s with all the names?
Sol 8 – Mission Operations Centre (MOC), Harwell This morning the team awoke with a shared air of determination to make the most of our last day of planning, and complete our goal of choosing a suitable site to drill at the foot of a 30m high ridge we are calling “Big Mesa”. The experimental … More The Last Call
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