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Old April 22nd 05, 01:24 AM
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I missed it if anybody brought this one up:

from http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/050309_lorax.html
or http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050329130622.htm

quote
Date:
2005-04-05
Researchers Deploy Robot On Frozen Lake In Preparation For Antarctic
Expedition

Nomad, one of Carnegie Mellon University's most accomplished robotic
rovers, is at it again. This time the rover that trekked 220 kilometers
through Chile's Atacama Desert and explored Antarctica for meteorites
is being groomed for a potential return to the frozen continent to
search for signs of living microorganisms near the top of its icy
surface.
[...]
In the past, Nomad has largely been teleoperated, but for the LORAX
expedition, it was given the "brains" of another robot called Zoé that
has been surveying microscopic life in the Atacama Desert.

"The goal of this field experiment was to establish that Nomad's
mobility on snow and ice and our technology for autonomous navigation
meet the requirements for survey traverse in the Antarctic," said
Robotics Institute Associate Research Professor David Wettergreen.
/quote


And of course, the Atacama Desert work was part of figuring out how to
detect life on Mars, as well.


Picture at
http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/extra_art/050309_lorax_1.jpg

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Old April 22nd 05, 01:40 AM
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snidely wrote:
[...]
And of course, the Atacama Desert work was part of figuring out how

to
detect life on Mars, as well.


See, for instance,
http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/050315_atacama.html or
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050329130243.htm

quote
Carnegie Mellon Detection System Finds Life In Atacama Desert; Mars May
Be Future Site For Rover-based Technology

Current Mars expeditions raise the tantalizing possibility that there
may be life somewhere on the red planet. But just how will future
missions find it? A system being developed by Carnegie Mellon
scientists could provide the answer.

At the 36th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference in Houston this week
(March 14-18), Carnegie Mellon scientist Alan Waggoner is presenting
results of the life detection system's recent performance in Chile's
Atacama Desert, where it found growing lichens and bacterial colonies.
This marks the first time a rover-based automated technology has been
used to identify life in this harsh region, which serves as a test bed
for technology that could be deployed in future Mars missions.

"Our life detection system worked very well, and something like it
ultimately may enable robots to look for life on Mars," says Waggoner,
a member of the "Life in the Atacama" project team and director of the
Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center at Carnegie Mellon's Mellon
College of Science.
/quote

photo at
http://www.cmu.edu/cmnews/extra/extra_art/050315_atacama_1.jpg with
caption "Alan Waggoner, Atacama team member and director of the
Molecular Biosensor and Imaging Center at Carnegie Mellon, crouches
next to Zoë, a robotic rover, to spray the life-detection probes onto
the sample area. In the future, the probes will be sprayed from
instrumentation located underneath the rover. (Photo courtesy of
Carnegie Mellon University)"

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