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- From: yee@atlas.arc.nasa.gov (Peter Yee)
- Subject: Dante robot to provide live video as it descends into volcano [NTE 92-111] (Forwarded)
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- Organization: NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 05:44:59 GMT
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- Charles Redmond/Barbara Selby
- Headquarters, Washington, D.C. December 22, 1992
- (Phone: 202/358-1757 -- 202/358-1983)
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- Randee Exler
- Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md.
- (Phone: 301/286-7277)
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- EDITORS NOTE: N92-111
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- DANTE ROBOT TO PROVIDE LIVE VIDEO AS IT DESCENDS INTO VOLCANO
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- Dante, an eight-legged NASA robot, will provide live video of its
- descent down the steep inner rim to the lava lake of the Antarctic
- volcano Mt. Erebus during a technology demonstration and science
- expedition to begin about Dec. 28.
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- The robot demonstration is a joint NASA and National Science
- Foundation undertaking using the Antarctic as a demonstration site for
- robotic exploration development which could be used during future lunar
- or Martian missions.
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- The robotic exploration of the live Mt. Erebus volcano will take
- a minimum of 3 days. Each day, the Antarctic team will transmit five
- 20-minute live video feeds from cameras mounted atop the robot.
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- The feeds will be transmitted from Mt. Erebus via NASA's Tracking
- and Data Relay Satellite-West to the Goddard Space Flight Center,
- Greenbelt, Md. NASA will issue further media advisories via the
- Goddard Broadcast News Service (301/286-NEWS) when the dates and times
- of the feeds are better known.
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- NASA also will provide commentary on the robot's progress provided
- by robotics and volcano experts at Goddard. The television feed and
- commentary will be available both at Goddard and on NASA Select
- television.
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- A news operation will be active at the Goddard Visitor Center on
- Soil Conservation Road during these activities. Media wishing to
- participate will be able to access Goddard's payload operations
- activities via closed circuit television. Background materials, both
- print and video, will be available prior to the first live video feed.
-