page_title: Crewed Mars rover
section_title: Unpressurized rover
hierarchical_section_title: Crewed Mars rover / Unpressurized rover
caption_attribution_description: An artist’s drawing of humans exploring Mars
context_page_description: Crewed Mars rovers are vehicles for transporting people on the planet Mars, and have been conceptualized as part of human missions to that planet.
  Two types of crewed Mars rovers are unpressurized for a crew in Mars space suits, and pressurized for the crew to work without a space suit. Pressurized rovers have been envisioned for short trips from a Mars base, or may be equipped as a mobile base or laboratory.
  Crewed Mars rovers are a component of many designs for a human mission to the planet Mars. For example, the Austere Human Missions to Mars proposal included two rovers on its uncrewed power and logistics cargo lander. Each rover could hold a crew of two in a pressurized environment, with power coming from a Stirling radioisotope generator.
context_section_description: Unpressurized Mars rovers would lack a pressurized environment for the crew, being functionally similar to the lunar rover.  There are several advantages to having an unpressurized rover as opposed to a pressurized variant, such as a reduced weight.
caption: Buggy-style Mars rover for Mars suited astronauts
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