Real Martians Moment: Not Your Daddy's Dune Buggy

William Allen is a Mechanical Design Engineer working on development of NASA’s Mars 2020 rover mission. Mars 2020 is the next in a very successful evolution of robotic Mars rovers. In fact, NASA is capitalizing on the success of the Curiosity rover – which is currently on Mars – by using its DNA or architecture to design this new rover. The Mars 2020 rover is expected to have one key upgrade: the ability to gather samples and prepare them for a possible return trip to Earth. This will enable NASA to better plan for safe human missions to the Red Planet in the future.