Robotic Antarctic Meteorite Search: Outcomes

• Main Authors: Dimitrios Apostolopoulos Liam, Dimitrios S. Apostolopoulos, Liam Pedersen, Benjamin N. Shamah, Kimberly Shillcutt, Michael D. Wagner, William L. Whittaker
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2001
• Subjects: Antarctic; Elephant Moraine; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.21.5874; http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub2/apostolopoulos_dimitrios_2001_2/apostolopoulos_dimitrios_2001_2.pdf

: Automation of the search for and classification of Antarctic meteorites offers a unique case for early demonstration of robotics in a scenario analogous to geological exploratory missions to other planets and to the Earth's extremes. Moreover, the discovery of new meteorite samples is of grea...