Mars Rovers over the decades have explored the surface of the red planet and supplied valuable information to earth. These robots are a kind of moving lab. They are light weight, reliable and operate with renewable energy supplies. An ideal autonomous mine explorer in the wild.
Mars Rovers, because of their use cases have demanding requirements which make them very expensive. However, a mineral explorer on earth wouldn’t have most of these requirements and therefore can be made much cheaper. More importantly mineral explorers would be mass produced unlike Mars explorers.
The light weight and sturdy design of the rovers allow them to be deployed by drones to remote locations. Unlike space rovers, the ones operating on earth can be supported by mobile telecom relays for high-speed communication. Allowing them to explore caves as well. Additionally, mobile renewable energy generators can be installed in the exploration zone to enable operation even in winter or at night.
Mineral exploration would increase the usage of the rovers and create a market for them. Which would attract high-tech companies to develop technologies for them. These technologies would then be transferred to space exploration.
The objective is to establish a two way now how transfer between deep space exploration and mineral exploration.
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