When you go on a trip, you might reach for a map to help navigate your journey or pull up GPS on your phone. But what if the destination is on another planet, and there is no map? A new project sponsored by the International Space Station (ISS) National Laboratory could provide an assist. Called the Multi-Resolution Scanner (MRS), the investigation will leverage NASA’s free-flying robotic Astrobee system on the space station to test a novel 3D mapping technology that can produce detailed maps of remote environments. The project, a collaboration between Boeing and CSIRO (an Australian governmen…
