Instead, the team adapted a technique that involves precise monitoring of radio signals originally designed for a different purpose for another planetary mission in development, named Juno.
This software was first developed for planetary purposes, but recent developments make it now suitable for computing DSMs on Earth with Astrium and Digital Globe images.
The project, which stems from the study programme undertaken by the French Space Agency CNESS) to develop the base-line concepts for planetary rovers, concerns the development, tests and experimentation of an on-ground mobile robot emulating a generic rover.
With a growing number of nations interested in planetary exploration, research and development of extraterrestrial rovers have been intensified.
Steffen, W. et al. Planetary boundaries: guiding human development on a changing planet.
Steffen, W. et al. Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet.
Our best destiny, as planetary cohabitants, is the development of what has been called "species consciousness" - something over and above nationalisms, blocs, religions, ethnicities.
The images are "a spectacular development," says planetary scientist John Spencer of Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona.
Although the origin of homochirality is still not determined, there is evidence that it may be connected to early stages of the development of planetary systems, e.g. star forming regions, where homochiral organics may be produced by asymmetric photolysis and asymmetric photochemical synthesis of the organic molecules in the dust particles (e.g., Hough et al., 2001).
