ESTEC, the European Space Research and Technology Centre, part of the europeanspaceagency, in Noordwijk, Netherlands, where 2,500 staff are involved in pioneering work. With its "Mars yard," the Planetary Robotics Lab engineers robots to roam the moon’s and Mars’s surface, where a rocky landscape requires specialized locomotion and navigation. For gallerieditalia vu_photo #esa #space #mars #moon #rover