Hi Listees, I was recently reading some old reports about the "Nomad" effort to recover meteorites from Antarctica using an autonomous robot. The robot would follow a pattern in an area while surveying the surroundings with cameras and sensors. Suspect rocks would be visually analyzed at a distance and promising candidates would be approach and analyzed in-situ using instruments on the rover. The rover would then confirm if a rock was a meteorite and collect it if the tests were positive.
I was able to find some press releases and media articles announcing or promoting the project, but I could not find any follow-up with the results. The old websites dedicated to the Nomad effort are down. Does anyone know if the robot successfully recovered any meteorites? Best regards, MikeG -- ------------------------------------------------------------- Web - http://www.galactic-stone.com Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/galacticstone Twitter - http://twitter.com/galacticstone Pinterest - http://pinterest.com/galacticstone ------------------------------------------------------------- ______________________________________________ Visit the Archives at http://www.meteorite-list-archives.com Meteorite-list mailing list Meteorite-list@meteoritecentral.com http://six.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/meteorite-list
