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Hopefully they'll send more drones to mars, moon, etc and less rovers. Unless there are technical reasons I'm not aware of, why wouldn't they scout with drones

• _mhr_ 5y ago
  Perhaps because dust storms would ruin the rotors?
• zokier 5y ago
  The science payload that an aircraft can carry is much smaller compared to a rover. Also due mass restrictions (afaik) copters are solar-powered, while rovers can be rtg powered; this is pretty relevant for cave exploration as it would be pretty catastrophic for a copter to run out of power in a cave where as rover could at least hypothetically find its way back out.