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But important as this news was to volcano experts and the people of Anchorage, just 80 miles from Mount Spurr, the volcano study was perhaps the least noteworthy part of the robot's mission. Despite the final slipup, which toppled Dante and left it stranded on the steep mountain slope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dante Tours the Inferno | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

That skill will be crucial if a Dante-like robot is sent to another world. On Mars, for example, says Lavery, contact would probably be limited to once a < day, and even then the enormous distances would result in a minimum 10-minute time lag in communications. Dante II is...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dante Tours the Inferno | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

Another barrier to sending robots to the planets is weight: every pound you launch into space is expensive. At nearly a ton, Dante II would break the bank. Whittaker is already thinking about lighter models, though. And while NASA's Lavery cautions that Dante II is still "far from any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dante Tours the Inferno | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

"I detest fundamentalism and communalism," Nasrin announces in her preface, and that is about as subtle as Shame ever gets. Even though they have lived there for generations, the Duttas seem to have dropped into Bangladesh from Mars, so alien does the specter of sectarian violence from neighboring Muslims strike...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jane Austen She's Not | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

A slipup mars a robot's successful visit into a volcano

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Magazine Contents Page | 8/15/1994 | See Source »

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