Wheeled and tracked rovers could probably be made to work in gravity as low as a hundredth of that on Earth, says Issa Nesnas, head of the Robotic Mobility Group at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
Planetary suits will soon be responsible for, among other things, keeping astronauts from simultaneously freezing and boiling (while allowing them the agility required to work in gravity).
From the groundbreaking space trilogy The Dream is Alive, Blue Planet and Destiny in Space to the award-winning Space Station 3D and Hubble 3D, each of her films explores a different theme, from the experience of living and working in zero gravity to the solar system and the Earth itself.
Jump to media player BBC science correspondent Pallab Ghosh speaks to British astronaut Tim Peake as he trains underwater to prepare for working in zero gravity.
She says while she's not used to working in zero gravity, the fact that she won't get to travel into space to conduct the experiment by hand is OK with her.
"The space environment is harsh on the human body and astronauts must maintain good bone density, muscle mass and cardiovascular fitness in order to be able to effectively work in Martian gravity after an extending zero gravity transit.
Like fellow Mexicans Alejandro Iñárritu and Guillermo del Toro, he has already achieved success working in English – with Gravity.
NASA spent millions on R&D to create the ultimate pen that would work in zero gravity and the result was this incredible machine.
Both have limitations: Landers cannot investigate areas beyond their immediate surroundings, and the more mobile rovers don't work in ultra low gravity environments, where their wheels won't adhere to the ground (like on asteroids, comets, and the martian moons).
The progressive downslope movement of saturated detrital material under the action of gravity and working in conjunction with frost action is called solifluction.
That is the serious challenge of working in an area like quantum gravity that currently lacks confirmation through observation, or experimentation.
