• Main Authors: Dimitrios S. Apostolopoulos, Michael D. Wagner, Benjamin N. Shamah, Liam Pedersen, Kimberly Shillcutt, William L. Whittaker
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: robotic meteorite search; science autonomy; Bayesian; Antarctic; Elephant Moraine; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.73.556; http://www.ri.cmu.edu/pub_files/pub2/apostolopoulos_dimitrios_2000_1/apostolopoulos_dimitrios_2000_1.pdf

Meteorites are the only significant source of material from other planets and asteroids, and therefore are of immense scientific value. Antarctica’s frozen and pristine environment has proven to be the best place on Earth to harvest meteorite specimens. The lack of melting and surface erosion keep m...