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Robots: Planetary Exploration
     




The latest episode of the Robots
podcast focusses on space robots. Julie
Townsend from the Jet
Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology
explains her work with NASA's Mars Exploration
Rovers and the
lunar ATHLETE
robot shown in the video
above. This episode's second guest is Sebastian Gautsch
from the SAMLAB
in Neuchatel, Switzerland, who tells us about his Atomic Force
Microscope that was sent to Mars aboard the Phoenix lander in the
Spring of 2008. Read
on and tune
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http://robots.net/article/2957.html