Gallery: Build Your Own Mini Mars Rover With These Brilliant, NASA-Approved Blocks

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    The littleBits Space Kit is a box of Lego-like components that allow anyone to conduct NASA-approved experiments.
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    You can build miniature, but functioning, versions of NASA’s famous machines like this satellite.
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    Or a Mars rover, which uses a remote trigger module to control the robot from any remote.
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    Here's a mini replica of the AURA satellite, which collects global observations of Earth. You can build your own using the littleBits components like a DC motor, remote trigger, wires and a power source.
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    The idea is once you know how components work together, you can use that knowledge to create innumerable other things.
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