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Abstract

We are investigating how augmenting human field work with subsequent robot activity can improve lunar exploration. Robotic “follow-up” might involve: completing geology observations; making tedious or long-duration measurements of a target site or feature; curating samples in-situ; and performing unskilled, labor-intensive work. To study this technique, we have begun conducting a series of lunar analog field tests at Haughton Crater (Canada).

Keywords

planetary rovers, field geology, space exploration

Notes

Text Reference

Terrence W. Fong, Maria Bualat, Matthew Deans, Essam Heggy, Mark Helper, Kip Hodges, and Pascal Lee, "Improving Lunar Exploration with Robotic Follow-up," Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group, September, 2010, pp. Abstract 3071.

BibTeX Reference

@inproceedings{Fong_2010_6683,
   author = "Terrence W Fong and Maria Bualat and Matthew Deans and Essam Heggy and Mark Helper and Kip Hodges and Pascal Lee",
   title = "Improving Lunar Exploration with Robotic Follow-up",
   booktitle = "Annual Meeting of the Lunar Exploration Analysis Group",
   pages = "Abstract 3071",
   month = "September",
   year = "2010",
}

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