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John P Thornton
Senior Research Engineer
Associated center: FRC
Email address: johnthornton@cmu.edu
Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
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Current Projects
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Google Lunar X Prize - We are part of a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth.
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Lunar Rover for Polar Crater Exploration - The Scarab lunar rover has been designed to carry a 1-meter coring drill and a payload of science instruments that can analyze the abundance of hydrogen, oxygen and other materials.
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