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  2. ENDURANCE Project Taking Icy Test Dive


    Underwater Robot Takes Test Dive in Wisconsin before Mission to Antarctica: ENDURANCE Project Demonstrating Concepts for Europa Exploration

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  3. Robotic Sun Worship


    In the third segment of Astrobiology Magazine’s four-part interview with roboticist David Wettergreen, he discusses a project to design a robot that, quite literally, followed the sun. Wettergreen is an associate research professor at Carnegie Mellon University, where he works in the Field Robotics Center.

    Astrobiology Magazine: One of the projects you worked on, a robot named Hyperion, was designed to take maximum advantage of solar power. But a lot of solar-powered robots had already been built before you designed Hyperion....

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  4. Endurance Explorer


    Antarctic Lake Robot Probe Sets Sights on Outer Space

    A robotic probe designed to draw an underwater three-dimensional map showing the biological and geochemical composition of an ice-bound Antarctica lake may prove to be the ideal tool to search for life on other planets or moons where ice is known to exist.

    Peter Doran, associate professor of earth and environmental sciences at the University of Illinois at Chicago, is the lead investigator in a three-year, $2.3 million dollar study funded by

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