This wind-powered NASA bike concept wants to conquer transportation on Mars - Yanko Design

The next biggest dream for humankind is to set human foot on Mars and colonize the Red Planet. Already NASA has sent rovers to our next prospect home for probing the surface, environment, and other unknown factors. Fifty-fifty visionaries like Elon Musk have their eyes set on colonizing the planet by 2050. Of course, innumerable things need to be sorted to achieve that longing, and ane aspect of the dream is to procure suitable vehicles for the hostile environment. Certain four-wheeled carriers are beingness adult for the jagged surfaces, but a highly maneuverable two-wheeler is something that also needs to be in contention.

Designer Simon Grytten has thought something out of the box and penned information technology down in the form of sketches for his version of a bike that'south apt for Mars missions. He calls it the NASA Bike and Grytten has designed the mock-upwards in a fashion that makes it just more a medium of transportation. Information technology can charge its own battery every bit well as the battery of the base station by harnessing the wind energy courtesy of the prominent storms of the planet. NASA Bike turns into a wind turbine when not in use which is a mindful utility in a infinite where everything needs to be resourceful.

The cycle plugs-in to the charging station which is a large generator to continue things running on the hostile planet. For riding the two-wheeler has a very bare-bones bones design for obvious reasons since one is not going to drive it for the thrill of riding, rather get from one place to another, safe and sound. For at present, the concept is in the infancy phase and needs to factor in all the dynamics which actually brand information technology feasible. One of them is the practicality of riding the bike in sand storms which would exist highly unsafe and the amount of energy the two wheels would exist able to generate for such a big generator!

Designer: Simon Grytten