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Robot Joins The Polar Meteorite Hunt
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- From: Ron Baalke <BAALKE@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
- Date: Mon, 29 Nov 1999 16:18:35 GMT
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Robot joins the polar meteorite hunt
Nomad breaks ground for next-generation space rovers
By Alan Boyle, MSNBC
Nov. 28 - A rock-hunting robot is being sent to Antarctica on a mission
that will likely turn up the first meteorites discovered by a machine rather
than a human. The project's leaders hope the techniques will be put to use
someday by free-thinking robots sent to other planets.
Full story here:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/340170.asp
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