Hi Mike,
This link may provide some info for you. Nomad apparently worked as
advertised.
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2000-02/CMU-CMaN-0102100.php
There are two links at the end of the article that unfortunately no longer
seem to be working.
Regards,
Ed Deckert
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Subject: [meteorite-list] Results of ANSMET Nomad Robotic Meteorite
RecoveryEffort?
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
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