‘Vibrotactile’ Boots Could Aid Mars Explorers

Credit: NASA
HOUSTON—A proposed spacesuit situational awareness system packaged inside special boots could allow future explorers to stroll across the Martian terrain with less risk of injury or death from a fall. The two-year research effort was conducted by Alison Gibson, a Charles Stark Draper Laboratory...

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