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Carnegie Mellon University introduces a way to honor noteworthy robots, along with their inventors. An international jury for the Robot Hall of Fame will decide the first entries in Fall 2003.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2003
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Landing on an asteroid, while a thrilling ride for a science team, can be compared to liting a fly onto a splayed bullet. The success of the NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft in pulling off such a remarkable feat is this week's selection for the Extreme Explorer's Hall of Fame.
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Thursday, September 11, 2003
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This week's selection for the Extreme Explorers' Hall of Fame is from researchers at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Calif., who have created a micro robot reminiscent of the childhood character Charlotte from "Charlotte's Web"
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Sunday, September 07, 2003
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Mars Scout finalists are this week's selections for the Extreme Explorers' Hall of Fame.
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Friday, September 05, 2003
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Don't miss the January deadline to name the Mars Exploration Rovers, scheduled to launch towards the red planet in June and roam the distance of a football field each day.
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Thursday, September 04, 2003
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Remarkably, on average, one Martian meteorite lands on Earth each month. But finding these scientific treasures is not a job for a human, at least according to the Nomad robot - this week's entry in the Extreme Explorers Hall of Fame. The timing of the selection corresponds to a new Science study trying to resolve the paradox: Why does Earth get such valuable samples, when Mars isn't hit that often by large rocks?
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Wednesday, September 03, 2003
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The Saturn-bound Cassini spacecraft gets its first view of Saturn and its biochemically-rich moon, Titan.
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Tuesday, September 02, 2003
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The Jupiter probe, Galileo, is this week's selection for the Extreme Explorers Hall of Fame. In the next ten days, the robotic spacecraft flies within 100 miles of the unusual moon, Amalthea, which gives off more heat than it receives. As Galileo has filled its mission objectives and is running low on maneuvering fuel, NASA plans to crash the spacecraft into Jupiter during 2003.
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Monday, September 01, 2003
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This week's selection for the Extreme Explorers Hall of Fame is a trio of European probes slated to land on a comet (Rosetta), a Saturnian moon (Huygens), and the Red Planet (Mars Express). Standing up to three times the temperature of the Sun's surface may be the least of their design specifications to match
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Saturday, August 30, 2003
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The eight-legged robot from a German and American research team has to venture 25 miles autonomously into the Mojave Desert and return safely. The Scorpion Project, complete with imager in its tail, is this week's selection for the Extreme Explorer's Hall of Fame.
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Friday, August 29, 2003
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1888
John J Loud patents ballpoint pen
1937
The closest approach to the earth by an asteroid, Hermes, was measured to be 485,000 miles.
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