NASA creates Cybertwin for the Phoenix Rover in the Second Life

In making use of the technologies around us, NASA have now gone and created a rover in Second Life, which mimics the real world Phoenix.

Explorer Island, in Second Life has been around for a while and hosts a variety of space exhibitions. Ranging from a virtual copy of a space shuttle to a replica of the desert weather on the Martian surface.

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