BAD HARDWARE WEEK

Solar power doesn’t have to be limited to Earth-based gadgets — at least, not if Carnegie Mellon roboticist Dr. William Whittaker has anything to say about it. Whitaker and Astrobiotic Technology have teamed up to develop a solar rover prototype that will explore the Apollo moon landing site and find out how materials used in the mission have fared over all these years.
NASA wasn't interested in that problem for Mars journeys or what?
tay tuned to find out the results of the team’s experiments when the solar rover lands on the Apollo moon site in 2011!