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...generate the most buzz--and not just because NASA has had 45 years to master the media spin cycle. What will make these expeditions stand out is that each will set loose on the Martian surface a remote-controlled rover even smarter and more photogenic than the miniature robot that captured the world's attention during the Pathfinder mission...
...tall from their wheels to the top of their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 400 lbs. each and should be able to cover up to 3,000 ft. in their 90 days of life--including many days they will spend standing around studying rocks. Each has a robot arm crowded with instruments: a rock-abrasion tool for boring into samples, a pair of spectrometers for analyzing mineral composition and measuring radioactive and electromagnetic radiation, and a microscopic imager. "The rovers are like field geologists going out to a new place," says Steve Squyres of Cornell University, NASA...
...generate the most buzz - and not just because NASA has had 45 years to master the media spin cycle. What will make these expeditions stand out is that each will set loose on the Martian surface a remote-controlled rover even smarter and more photogenic than the miniature robot that captured the world's attention during the Pathfinder mission...
...tall from their wheels to the top of their camera masts, the 2003 models weigh about 180 kg each and should be able to cover up to 915 m in their 90 days of life - including many days they will spend standing around studying rocks. Each has a robot arm crowded with instruments: a rock-abrasion tool for boring into samples, a pair of spectrometers for analyzing mineral composition and measuring radioactive and electromagnetic radiation, and a microscopic imager. "The rovers are like field geologists going out to a new place," says Steve Squyres of Cornell University, NASA's principal...
...front. Looking past the shabby prefab trailers and scrubby farmland they skirt, you see that Murakami is as much a factory floor manager as an artist. Under his direction, computer researchers catalog recurring motifs for easy cut-and-paste reproduction, drafters transform sketches into outlines on canvas with robot-like precision, and technicians keep precisely documented recipes for the 70 to 800 colors used in each painting. All workers circulate e-mail updates on their progress every day (an idea Murakami borrowed from a book by Microsoft's Bill Gates) and the KaiKai Kiki employee manual (which covers not just...