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- NASA Returns Zoe Robot To Chile's Atacama Desert To Hunt For Subsurface Life
April Flowers for redOrbit.com - Your Universe Online Zoë , the first robot to map microbial life during a 2005 field expedition in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is returning for another go-around. This month, on a NASA astrobiology mission led by Carnegie Mellon University and the SETI Institute , the autonomous and solar-powered robot is headed back into the world’s driest desert equipped with a one ...
June 12, 2013 - redOrbit - Zoe robot returns to Chile's Atacama Desert On NASA mission to search for subsurface life
( Carnegie Mellon University ) The autonomous, solar-powered Zoë, which became the first robot to map microbial life during a 2005 field expedition in Chile's Atacama Desert, is heading back to the world's driest desert this month on a NASA astrobiology mission led by Carnegie Mellon University and the SETI Institute. This time, Zoë is equipped with a one-meter drill to search for subsurface ...
June 11, 2013 - EurekAlert!