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Carnegie Mellon Rover Heads to Atacama Desert in Chile for Final Mission in 3-Year Search for Life; Crew to Leave Pittsburgh on Aug. 17.

Byline: Carnegie Mellon University

PITTSBURGH, Aug. 10 (AScribe Newswire) -- Carnegie Mellon University researchers and their colleagues from NASA's Ames Research Center and the universities of Tennessee, Arizona and Iowa, as well as Chilean researchers at Universidad Catolica del Norte (Antofagasta) are preparing for the final stage of a 3-year project to develop a prototype robotic astrobiologist, a robot that can explore and study life in the driest desert on Earth.

The team will direct and monitor Zoe, an autonomous solar-powered rover developed at Carnegie Mellon, as it travels 180 kilometers in Chile's Atacama Desert. Zoe is equipped with scientific instruments ...

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