Unlike the current crop of complex Martian robot explorers, the Tumbleweed Rover is large, inflated ball that contains a small instrument package which can transmit data to an orbiting satellite. The Tumbleweed has no propulsion of it’s own, it depends entirely upon the wind to get around. Currently one is deployed in Antartica and is happily getting blown around by the wind as it collects weather information.
There’s no way you can convince me that the Tumbleweed Rover team weren’t thinking of this
