March 01, 2006 - In the News

From IEEE Spectrum
"The idea is that eventually, scientists back on Earth won't need to send step-by-step instructions to the robot; if it spots a rock of particular interest, it will just mosey on over and investigate, instead of waiting for a human to tell it what to do."

January 21, 2006 - In the News

From Science News
"The machine would spray a target area with the four dyes. Then, using a bright xenon flash to make the dyes fluoresce, a camera would take four pictures through each of four filters tuned to the wavelengths emitted by each dye."

January 01, 2006 - In the News

From Popular Science
"I ask Warren-Rhodes who is the better Atacama biologist, she or Zoë. "I am," she says without missing a beat. "I’ve spent so much time in extreme deserts." And in a few years? "Oh, it will be like Kasparov playing IBM’s Deep Blue. By game 6, I’m outta here!""

November 18, 2005 - In the News

From The Chronicle of Higher Education
"The six-and-a-half-foot-wide rover looks like a jacked-up go-cart, with mountain-bike tires and solar panels on its back. A set of high-resolution cameras is mounted on a five-foot pole in the front, resembling an insect's antenna. Behind its removable fiberglass sides, the rover houses a dizzying array of circuitry, navigation equipment, and scientific instruments. The design is the result of 10 years of prototype testing at Carnegie Mellon's Robotics Institute."

Featured Remote Experience Files [PSEs]

October 22, 2004
Daily Update - "Sol 1-7"
From September 12th to the 18th (Sol 1-7), Zoë collected this data. Follow the rover as she traverses the coastal Atacama, looking for signs of life.

October 14, 2004
Daily Update - "Sol 8-14"
Including data from Sol 8 through Sol 14, this PSE covers the entire second week of remote science operations. On her final day's journey, the rover made it back to roughly the same location that she started the week at.

October 09, 2004
Daily Update - "Sol 8-13"
Including past updates, this PSE follows the rover from her second "landing" to her second to last day of science operations.